Image forming apparatus having gas flow path connected to supplying device
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsKazuya Umekubo, Mizue Sekine, Kenji Suzuki, Atsushi Funada
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier a developing device that applies a developer to the image carrier, and a supplying device that supplies a developer to the developing device. The supplying device has a developer flow path along which a developer passes. The image forming apparatus has a gas flow path along which a gas discharged from the developing device passes. The gas flow path is connected to the supplying device, in which the gas flow path is connected to a non-flow-path section of the supplying device. The non-flow-path section is a section that is not the developer flow path.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier;
- a developing device that applies a developer to the image carrier;
- and
- a supplying device that supplies a developer to the developing device, the supplying device having a developer flow path along which a developer passes,
- the image forming apparatus having a gas flow path along which a gas discharged from the developing device passes, the gas flow path being connected to the supplying device,
- wherein the gas flow path is connected to a non-flow-path section of the supplying device, the non-flow-path section being a section that is not the developer flow path,
- wherein, as part of the developer flow path, an annular flow path with a tubular shape that circulates around a surrounded space that connects to the gas flow path is provided, and
- wherein the surrounded space is included in an internal space of the supplying device, the surrounded space being a space that is surrounded by the tube of the angular flow path.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image carrier;
- a developing device that applies a developer to the image carrier;
- and
- a supplying device that supplies a developer to the developing device, the supplying device having a gas flow path that is a flow path along which a gas that has flowed from the developing device to the supplying device passes, the supplying device including a movement member that moves a developer in the gas flow path,
- wherein the supplying device has a developer flow path that is a flow path along which a developer passes, and
- wherein the movement member moves a developer in the gas flow path to the developer flow path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.