Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer containing chamber, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影剂容纳室,显影装置,处理盒和成像装置
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Application No.: US13707238Application Date: 2012-12-06
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Publication No.: US09031475B2Publication Date: 2015-05-12
- Inventor: Sho Shirakata , Tachio Kawai
- Applicant: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon USA Inc IP Division
- Priority: WOPCT/JP2011/078436 20111208
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G21/18

Abstract:
An object is to smoothly convey toner from a developer containing chamber to a developing chamber even when an opening that provides communication between the developer containing chamber and the developing chamber has a connecting part for adding strength to the apparatus. A sheet member that conveys a developer from an opening to the outside of a developer containing chamber has an entering portion that is formed by a first slit extending from a free end of the sheet member and positioned to cross a connecting part as viewed in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of a shaft member. The entering portion is configured to enter the outside of the developer containing chamber from the inside of the developer containing chamber. The entering portion overlaps in position with the connecting part as viewed in the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the shaft member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130149010A1 DEVELOPER CONTAINING CHAMBER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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