Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus and developer cartridge
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置和显影剂盒
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Application No.: US11689790Application Date: 2007-03-22
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Publication No.: US07706715B2Publication Date: 2010-04-27
- Inventor: Hiroki Mori , Mitsuru Horinoe , Yukiko Nakaya , Yuichi Matsushita , Fan Xu
- Applicant: Hiroki Mori , Mitsuru Horinoe , Yukiko Nakaya , Yuichi Matsushita , Fan Xu
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2006-084498 20060327
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developer cartridge includes a developer cartridge case for accommodating a developer, a developing roller, a toner layer thickness control blade, and a side sealing member. The developing roller is supported by the developer cartridge case such that a circumferential surface thereof is exposed to an outside of the developer cartridge case along a width direction. The toner layer thickness control blade includes a blade body portion made of a metallic plate. A tip portion of the blade body portion is disposed at a sliding portion of the developing roller and the side sealing member so as to contact with the side sealing member. A frictional heat generated at the sliding portion is released to the outside of the developer cartridge case through the blade body portion in order restrain a leak of the developer as much as possible.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070223958A1 Image Forming Apparatus and Developer Cartridge Public/Granted day:2007-09-27
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