Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer supply device and image forming apparatus having the same
- Patent Title (中): 显影剂供给装置及其成像装置
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Application No.: US13361270Application Date: 2012-01-30
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Publication No.: US08639166B2Publication Date: 2014-01-28
- Inventor: Takanori Uno , Mitsukiyo Okamura , Keisuke Takahashi , Suzue Onoda
- Applicant: Takanori Uno , Mitsukiyo Okamura , Keisuke Takahashi , Suzue Onoda
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya, Aichi
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya, Aichi
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, PC
- Priority: JP2011-021537 20110203
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developer supply device is provided, which includes a casing including a developer storage section at a bottom portion therein and an opening formed at an end thereof away from the developer storage section, development agent chargeable with a predetermined polarity, stored in the developer storage section, and a transfer board that is disposed in the casing and configured to transfer the development agent stored in the developer storage section when a multi-phase alternating-current voltage is applied to transfer electrodes of the transfer board. The development agent includes a mother particle having, around an outer surface thereof, an electrically insulating layer without a polar group having a charge polarity identical to the predetermined polarity, and an external additive, absorbed to around the mother particle in an easily desorbable manner, which is an electrically insulating fine particle having a charge polarity identical to the predetermined polarity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120201576A1 DEVELOPER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2012-08-09
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