Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer container, developing apparatus and process cartridge
- Patent Title (中): 显影容器,显影装置和处理盒
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Application No.: US13419869Application Date: 2012-03-14
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Publication No.: US08532544B2Publication Date: 2013-09-10
- Inventor: Hideki Kakuta , Tatsuya Suzuki
- Applicant: Hideki Kakuta , Tatsuya Suzuki
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2006-333897 20061211; JP2007-278173 20071025
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developer container for an image forming apparatus includes a developer accommodating chamber, provided with an opening, for accommodating a developer to be supplied to the opening; a feeding member, provided in the developer accommodating chamber and having an elasticity, for feeding the developer by rotation thereof; a deforming portion, provided in the developer accommodating chamber and contactable to the feeding member, for deforming the feeding member against the elasticity with the rotation of the feeding member; and a restoration portion for permitting the feeding member deformed by the deformed portion to restore elastically, thereby to throw the developer toward the opening, wherein a boundary portion between the deformed portion the restoration portion is disposed below a lower end of the opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120170955A1 DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING APPARATUS AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE Public/Granted day:2012-07-05
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