Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Development device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13183472Application Date: 2011-07-15
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Publication No.: US08280281B2Publication Date: 2012-10-02
- Inventor: Tomoya Ohmura , Junichi Matsumoto , Nobuo Iwata , Natsumi Katoh
- Applicant: Tomoya Ohmura , Junichi Matsumoto , Nobuo Iwata , Natsumi Katoh
- 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: JP2007-145444 20070531
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
The development device includes a development member and a circulation member. The development member develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a latent image carrier with a developer including toner and a carrier to make the electrostatic latent image visible. The circulation member receives the developer discharged from the development member and conveys the developer back to the development member. The circulation member includes a container provided upstream from the development member in a conveyance direction of the developer to store the developer. The container includes an agitator provided inside the container and agitates and mixes the developer and fresh toner supplied to the container. The agitator includes a rotatable agitation member in which one or more holes are formed through which the developer passes to mix the fresh toner and the developer to be agitated in the container.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110268478A1 DEVELOPMENT DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-11-03
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