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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

Image forming apparatus with seal member that abuts surface of toner carrier roller having convex and concave sections
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.
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