Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus, method of developing latent image
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置,处理盒和成像装置,潜像显影方法
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Application No.: US12342935Application Date: 2008-12-23
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Publication No.: US08135314B2Publication Date: 2012-03-13
- Inventor: Yasuo Miyoshi , Hisashi Kikuchi , Norio Kudo , Nobuo Iwata , Tsukuru Kai
- Applicant: Yasuo Miyoshi , Hisashi Kikuchi , Norio Kudo , Nobuo Iwata , Tsukuru Kai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-334399 20071226; JP2008-242079 20080922
- Main IPC: G03G15/09
- IPC: G03G15/09

Abstract:
A developing device includes a first screw that supplies a developer to a developing roller while agitating/conveying the developer in a first direction, and a screw that collects residual developer from the developing roller, agitates/conveys the residual developer in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and delivers the residual developer to the first screw. Between two points that a magnetic flux density in a normal direction of a magnetic field formed in a developer separating magnetic pole in the developing roller become substantially zero, a point at a downstream side in a rotating direction of the developing roller is formed at an upstream side to a developing roller rotating direction, than a line joining the center of the developing roller and the center of the second screw.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090169264A1 DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF DEVELOPING LATENT IMAGE Public/Granted day:2009-07-02
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