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US09280095B2 Developing device and image forming apparatus having seal member with non-contact portion
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显影装置和图像形成装置具有非接触部分的密封构件
- Patent Title: Developing device and image forming apparatus having seal member with non-contact portion
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置和图像形成装置具有非接触部分的密封构件
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Application No.: US14475078Application Date: 2014-09-02
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Publication No.: US09280095B2Publication Date: 2016-03-08
- Inventor: Hideji Hayashi
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2013-181069 20130902
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/09

Abstract:
A developing device forms an image by developing an electrostatic latent image on a photoreceptor rotating about a rotation axis. The developing device includes a housing having an opening opposite the photoreceptor, a developing sleeve disposed inside the housing, a magnetic body disposed in a central portion of the developing sleeve and not in no-magnet portions thereof at both sides of the central portion, and seal members supported by the housing. Each of the seal members shields either one of portions of the photoreceptor that are located opposite the no-magnet portions and is in surface contact with either one of end portions of the photoreceptor farther from a center of the photoreceptor than the no-magnet portions. Each of the seal members includes, at an end thereof closer to the center of the photoreceptor than the other end thereof, a non-contact portion that is not in contact with the photoreceptor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150063862A1 DEVELOPING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-03-05
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