Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideaki Kurimoto, Satoshi Kimura
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Abstract
A developing device includes: a developing device body including a vent opening that releases internal pressure, and a filter member including a filter that closes the vent opening, the filter member detachably attached to the developing device body; wherein the filter member is subjected to an attaching operation and a detaching operation, relative to the developing device body, in a state where an inner surface of the filter is in a predetermined first posture with the inner surface facing upward; and wherein the filter member is held on the developing device body in a state where the inner surface of the filter is in a predetermined second posture different from the first posture.
Claims9
A developing device comprising:
- a developing device body including a vent opening that releases internal pressure;
- and
- a filter member including a filter that closes the vent opening, the filter member detachably attached to the developing device body,
- wherein the filter member is subjected to an attaching operation and a detaching operation, relative to the developing device body, in a state where an inner surface of the filter is in a predetermined first posture with the inner surface facing upward, and
- wherein the filter member is held on the developing device body in a state where the inner surface of the filter is in a predetermined second posture different from the first posture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.