DEVELOPING DEVICE

• US 20150093139A1
• Filed: 05/19/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: KURAMOTO, Shinichi, ISHII, Yasutomo, TOMISHI, Ryota, OKUYAMA, Shinji
• Granted Patent: US 9,244,376 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 399/92
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0806 on a donor element, e.g. belt, roller complete developer unit G03G15/0896
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0921 Details concerning the magnetic brush roller structure, e.g. magnet configuration

Abstract

Provided is a developing device including a storage container that stores a developer, a rotating body that supplies the developer to an image holding member in a supply region by being rotated with holding the developer, an inflow portion that is provided with an inflow port placed on a downstream side of the supply region in a rotation direction of the rotating body, and flows air into the storage container, and an outflow portion that is provided with an outflow port and emits air in the storage container from the outflow port, wherein the outflow port and the inflow port are placed to be adjacent to each other.

Claims

1. A developing device comprising:

a storage container that stores a developer;

a rotating body that supplies the developer to an image holding member in a supply region by being rotated with holding the developer;

an inflow portion that is provided with an inflow port placed on a downstream side of the supply region in a rotation direction of the rotating body, and flows air into the storage container; and

an outflow portion that is provided with an outflow port and emits air in the storage container from the outflow port,

wherein the outflow port and the inflow port are placed to be adjacent to each other.

2. The developing device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a magnetic member including a plurality of magnetic poles,

wherein the rotating body rotates around the magnetic member,

wherein the plurality of magnetic poles include;

a separation magnetic pole that separates the developer from the rotating body; and

an attraction magnetic pole that attracts the developer to the rotating body, and

wherein air in the storage container flows into the outflow portion from a position on an upstream side of a line connecting a rotation center of the rotating body and the attraction magnetic pole in the rotation direction and on a downstream side of a line connecting the rotation center and the separation magnetic pole in the rotation direction.

3. The developing device according to claim 2,

wherein the air in the storage container flows into the outflow portion from a position on a downstream side of a line connecting the rotation center and a separation position at which the developer is separated from a surface of the rotating body in the rotation direction.

4. The developing device according to claim 1,

wherein in a direction crossing a direction that air flows through the outflow portion, a cross-sectional area at the outflow port is larger than a cross-sectional area at an inlet port of the outflow portion, and air in the storage container flows into the outflow portion through the inlet port.

5. The developing device according to claim 2,

wherein in a direction crossing a direction that air flows through the outflow portion, a cross-sectional area at the outflow port is larger than a cross-sectional area at an inlet port of the outflow portion, and air in the storage container flows into the outflow portion through the inlet port.

6. The developing device according to claim 3,

wherein in a direction crossing a direction that air flows through the outflow portion, a cross-sectional area at the outflow port is larger than a cross-sectional area at an inlet port of the outflow portion, and air in the storage container flows into the outflow portion through the inlet port.

7. The developing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a forming member that forms the inflow portion in a space between the rotating body and the forming member, and forms the outflow portion in a space between an inner wall of the storage container and the forming member.

8. The developing device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a forming member that forms the inflow portion in a space between the rotating body and the forming member, and forms the outflow portion in a space between an inner wall of the storage container and the forming member.

9. The developing device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a forming member that forms the inflow portion in a space between the rotating body and the forming member, and forms the outflow portion in a space between an inner wall of the storage container and the forming member.

10. The developing device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a forming member that forms the inflow portion in a space between the rotating body and the forming member, and forms the outflow portion in a space between an inner wall of the storage container and the forming member.

11. The developing device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a forming member that forms the inflow portion in a space between the rotating body and the forming member, and forms the outflow portion in a space between an inner wall of the storage container and the forming member.

12. The developing device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a forming member that forms the inflow portion in a space between the rotating body and the forming member, and forms the outflow portion in a space between an inner wall of the storage container and the forming member.

13. A developing device comprising:

a storage container that stores a developer;

a rotating body that supplies the developer to an image holding member by being rotated with holding the developer; and

a flow path that communicates a space inside the storage container with a space outside the storage container,

wherein in the flow path, a pressure at an outflow port from which air is emitted is lower than a pressure at an inlet port from which air flows in, and the pressure at the outflow port is equal to a pressure outside the flow path.

14. A developing device comprising:

a storage container that stores a developer;

a rotating body that supplies the developer to an image holding member; and

a divider that divides a space between the rotating body and an inner wall of the storage container into an inflow portion and an outflow portion,

wherein the inflow portion and the outflow portion communicate an inside of the storage container with an outside of the storage container,

wherein the inflow portion is disposed adjacent to the rotating body and the outflow portion is adjacent to an inner wall of the storage container, and

wherein a first distance between the divider and the inner wall of the storage container is different from a second distance between the divider and the rotating body at an outer end portion of the divider which is disposed at a side where the inflow portion and the outflow portion communicate with the outside of the storage container.

15. The developing device according to claim 14,

wherein the first distance is longer than the second distance.

16. The developing device according to claim 14,

wherein a third distance between the divider and the inner wall of the storage container is different from a fourth distance between divider and the rotating body at an inner end portion of the divider which is disposed at a side where the inflow portion and the outflow portion communicate with the inside of the storage container.

17. The developing device according to claim 16,

wherein the third distance is shorter than the fourth distance.

18. A developing device comprising:

a storage container that stores a developer;

a rotating body that supplies the developer to an image holding member; and

a divider that divides a space between the rotating body and an inner wall of the storage container into an inflow portion and an outflow portion,

wherein the inflow portion and the outflow portion communicate an inside of the storage container with an outside of the storage container,

wherein the inflow portion is disposed adjacent to the rotating body and the outflow portion is adjacent to an inner wall of the storage container,

wherein a first distance between the divider and the inner wall of the storage container at an outer end portion of the divider is different from a second distance between the divider and the inner wall of the storage container at an inner end portion of the divider,

wherein the outer end portion is disposed at a side where the inflow portion communicates with the outside of the storage container, and

wherein the inner end portion is disposed at a side where the inflow portion communicates with the inside of the storage container.

19. The developing device according to claim 18,

wherein the first distance is longer than the second distance.