Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13137522Application Date: 2011-08-24
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Publication No.: US08666288B2Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Junichi Matsumoto , Tomoya Ohmura , Yasuo Takuma , Hiroshi Kikuchi , Natsumi Matsue
- Applicant: Junichi Matsumoto , Tomoya Ohmura , Yasuo Takuma , Hiroshi Kikuchi , Natsumi Matsue
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2010-189871 20100826; JP2011-141016 20110624
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/09

Abstract:
A developing device in the embodiment includes: a developer carrier that carries a two-component developer, moves the surface, and supplies the toner to a latent image on a surface of a latent image carrier; a first conveying member that conveys the developer in a first conveying path; a second conveying member that conveys the developer in a second conveying path; and a developer passing unit that conveys upward the developer which has reached at a conveying-direction posterior end of the second conveying path and passes the developer to the first conveying path. The developer passing unit includes a plurality of pushing members that push up the developer. The developer can pass through from upper surfaces of the pushing members to lower surfaces of the pushing members.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120051792A1 Developing device and image forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2012-03-01
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