Invention Grant
US07991319B2 Image forming apparatus with seal member that abuts surface of toner carrier roller having convex and concave sections
有权
具有密封构件的图像形成装置,其邻接具有凸形和凹形部分的调色剂承载辊的表面
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with seal member that abuts surface of toner carrier roller having convex and concave sections
- Patent Title (中): 具有密封构件的图像形成装置,其邻接具有凸形和凹形部分的调色剂承载辊的表面
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Application No.: US12348747Application Date: 2009-01-05
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Publication No.: US07991319B2Publication Date: 2011-08-02
- Inventor: Tomohiro Aruga , Masahiro Maeda
- Applicant: Tomohiro Aruga , Masahiro Maeda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: DLA Piper LLP (US)
- Priority: JP2008-002985 20080110
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
In an image forming apparatus, a toner carrier roller rotatably mounted to a housing that stores toner rotates to convey toner to an opposed position facing a latent image carrier outside the housing. A plurality of convex sections are regularly arranged on a surface of the roller in an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis and in a circumferential direction orthogonal to the axial direction and parallel to a circumferential surface of the roller and a concave section surrounds the convex sections. A seal member abuts the surface of the roller moving from the outside toward the inside of the housing at a position downstream of the opposed position in a rotation direction of the roller to prevent toner leakage from inside the housing. The roller moves relative to the seal member in the axial direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090180796A1 Image Forming Apparatus, A Developing Device And An Image Forming Method Public/Granted day:2009-07-16
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