Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an improved auger driving element which is mounted on a toner cartridge for printer and used for a waste toner carrying auger. SOLUTION: The replaceable toner cartridge for printer is equipped with the waste toner carrying auger which is driven by a drive gear of the printer to freely rotate. The auger is equipped with the drive element 60 engaging the drive gear of the printer. The drive element 60 is equipped with drive paddles 84 which extend radially from an auger shaft. Each drive paddle 84 has a radial paddle face 86 extending radially from a drive main body 82 to the end part of the drive paddle 84. As the slanting paddle face 86 slides along an engagement end of the driving gear, the drive element 60 rotates, so the drive paddle 84 slides in a specified engagement space to engage the drive gear. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the print quality of a form sending-in guide in a transfer area from deteriorating. SOLUTION: A printer is equipped with an electric charge receptor such as a photoreceptor 10, a transfer corotron 14 which determines the transfer area associated with the electric charge receptor, and a peeling corotron 16 and further a guide member 18 which sends a sheet in the transfer area is provided in the transfer area. The guide member 18 has a plurality of ribs (30) supports the sheet in the transfer area so that it moves in a processing direction (in the moving path direction of the sheet). A 1st group of ribs (30) is set to a direction oblique to the processing direction and a 2nd group of ribs is set to a 2nd direction oblique to the processing direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a connector for connecting a charging device such as a corotron or a scorotron to a voltage source within a machine. SOLUTION: The end of the charging device which can be used in a printing apparatus, for example, the scorotron 10 is constituted of an end block 28 and a cover block. Channels 30, 32 and 34 nearly enclosing a portion of a corona member 20, 22 or 24 are provided in the end block 28 respectively. The corona members 20, 22 and 24 have opening 21, 23 or 25 respectively, and a conductive pin 40 is firmly fixed on the end block 28 by meshing with the openings 21, 23 and 25. The cover block is built into the end block 28 so as to nearly cover over the channels 30, 32 and 34 in the end block 28. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electrophotographic device including a braid sticker making it possible to provide a functional housing, enabling the electrophotographic device to operate while preventing suspended toner particles from leaking out to a wrong area in the device, at the circumference of a photodetection body. SOLUTION: In an electrophotographic printer, the surface of the photodetection body 10 which rotates is cleaned by using a blade 22. At an end part of the blade 22, a flexible seal member 70 is provided. The seal member 70 has a main body part 76 and a portion of it comes into contact with the surface of the photodetection body 10 while the other part is fixed to a stationary surface. A tab forming an oblique edge 72 is extended from the main body part 76. A portion of the oblique edge 72 comes into contact with the surface of the blade 22. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO