Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device with seal member that abuts toner carrier roller
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置与密封件邻接调色剂承载辊
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Application No.: US12353090Application Date: 2009-01-13
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Publication No.: US08126355B2Publication Date: 2012-02-28
- 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: JP2008-012149 20080123
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developing device, includes: a housing that stores toner inside; a toner carrier roller that is shaped approximately like a cylinder, is mounted to the housing rotatably about a rotational axis, rotates while carrying the toner on a surface thereof to convey the toner to outside of the housing, and is provided, on the surface thereof, with a plurality of convex sections which are regularly arranged and a concave section which surrounds the convex sections, the convex sections including top surfaces that coincide with a part of a curved surface of single cylinder and have electrical conductivity; and a seal member that is arranged in abutting contact with the surface of the toner carrier roller moving from the outside the housing toward the inside the housing at a position downstream of the opposed position in a rotation direction of the toner carrier roller to prevent toner leakage from the housing, a contact surface of the seal member being made of a material located at a position to charge the toner with a polarity opposite to its charging polarity in triboelectric series.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090185819A1 Developing Device, an Image Forming Apparatus and an Image Forming Method Public/Granted day:2009-07-23
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