Developing apparatus having a frame portion with varied thickness, and process cartridge thereof

• US 9,791,826 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2014
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Nishino, Kosuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Lindsay, Jr., Walter L
• Assistant Examiner(s): FADUL, PHILIPMARCUS T
• Application Number:
  US14/325,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20150016838A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,197 Days
• Field of Search: 399111, 399114
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/181 Manufacturing or assembling, recycling, reuse, transportation, packaging or storage
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/1821 means for connecting the different parts of the process cartridge, e.g. attachment, positioning of parts with each other, pressure/distance regulation G03G21/1825 takes precedence

Abstract

A process cartridge including a first frame member molded by pouring a resin from a gate; a conductive sheet adhered integrally to a sheet adhering portion of the first frame member by molding of the resin; and a second frame member configured to define a toner storage portion by being coupled with the first frame member, wherein, the first frame member includes a bent portion at the sheet adhering portion, and a portion of the first frame member different in thickness is provided at an adjacent position to the adhering portion.

Claims

1. A developing apparatus comprising:

a first frame member molded by pouring resin from a gate, with a conductive sheet integrally adhered by the resin; and

a second frame member configured to define a toner storage portion by being coupled with the first frame member,

wherein the first frame member includes a bent portion to which the conductive sheet is adhered, and a thickness varied portion and

wherein the thickness varied portion is formed adjacent to the conductive sheet and between the conductive sheet and the gate.

2. The developing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein

an amount of variation in thickness of the thickness varied portion having a reduced thickness falls within a range from 0.2 mm to 0.5 mm with respect to a standard thickness.

3. The developing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the thickness varied portion having the reduced thickness is on a line connecting the gate trace and the bent portion closest to the gate trace.

4. The developing apparatus according to claim 1 wherein

a width of the thickness varied portion having a reduced thickness is at least 20 mm.

5. The developing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the thickness varied portion includes a portion having a thickness larger than a standard thickness adjacently to the depression having a thickness smaller than the standard thickness.

6. The developing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the thickness varied portion having an increased thickness is on a line connecting the bent portion at an end of the conductive sheet and the gate trace closest to the bent portion at the end of the conductive sheet.

7. The developing apparatus according to claim 6 wherein a width of the thickness varied portion having the increased thickness is at least 30 mm.

8. A process cartridge comprising:

a first frame member molded by pouring resin from a gate, with a conductive sheet integrally adhered by the resin; and

a second frame member configured to define a toner storage portion by being coupled with the first frame member,

wherein the first frame member includes a bent portion to which the conductive sheet is adhered and a thickness varied portion, and

wherein the thickness varied portion is formed adjacent to the conductive sheet and between the conductive sheet and the gate.

9. The process cartridge according to claim 8, wherein the thickness varied portion having a reduced thickness is on a line connecting the gate trace and the bent portion closest to the gate trace.

10. The process cartridge according to claim 8, wherein the thickness varied portion is a portion adjacent to the depression having the reduced thickness and having an increased thickness.

11. The process cartridge according to claim 10, wherein the thickness varied portion having the increased thickness is on a line connecting the bent portion at an end of the conductive sheet and the gate trace closest to the bent portion at the end of the conductive sheet.