Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Development roller, development device, process cartridge and image-forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影辊,显影装置,处理盒和成像装置
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Application No.: US13473808Application Date: 2012-05-17
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Publication No.: US08565652B2Publication Date: 2013-10-22
- Inventor: Takumi Terasaka , Toshio Kojima , Kyohta Koetsuka , Noriyuki Kamiya , Masayuki Ohsawa , Hiroya Abe
- Applicant: Takumi Terasaka , Toshio Kojima , Kyohta Koetsuka , Noriyuki Kamiya , Masayuki Ohsawa , Hiroya Abe
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2011-111411 20110518
- Main IPC: G03G15/09
- IPC: G03G15/09

Abstract:
A development roller includes a magnet roller and a rotatably supported development sleeve including inside thereof the magnet roller, the development sleeve is formed in a cylindrical shape and configured such that a shaft center of the cylindrical shape is inconsistent with a rotation axis of the development sleeve, the development sleeve includes an outer surface provided with many circular or elliptical depressions in a planar view, the depressions being regularly arranged at intervals, and a depth of the depression provided in a portion of the outer surface close to the rotation axis is larger than a depth of the depression provided in a portion of the outer surface far from the rotation axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120294655A1 DEVELOPMENT ROLLER, DEVELOPMENT DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-11-22
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