US 2012/0234188 A1 · LUBRICANT SUPPLY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PRESSING DEVICE

Abstract

A lubricant supply device includes a solid lubricant, a supply member contacting and rubbing the solid lubricant and thereby scraping a lubricant off the solid lubricant and supplying the lubricant to a lubricant supplying target, and a pressing mechanism pressing the solid lubricant against the supply member. The pressing mechanism includes a biasing device, and a plurality of pressing members receiving a biasing force of the biasing device and thereby pressing places of the solid lubricant at symmetrical positions with respect to a center of a contact part of the solid lubricant contacting the supply member, respectively.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A pressing device pressing an object to be pressed in a predetermined direction, the device comprising:

a biasing device to generate a biasing force in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction;
and
a plurality of pressing members receiving a biasing force of the biasing device and thereby pressing places of the object to be pressed at a plurality of positions with respect to a center of a pressed part of the object to be pressed, respectively, wherein the plurality of pressing members press the plurality of positions respectively by converting the direction of the biasing force into the predetermined direction pressed by the pressing device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/488,044Filed 4 Jun 2012

Priority

JP 2005-27602322 Sep 2005

Published

20 Sep 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G03G 21/0005
Arrangements not provided for by groups G03G13/00 - G03G19/00, e.g. cleaning, elimination of residual charge: for removing solid developer or…
G03G 2221/0005
Processes not provided for by group G03G2215/00, e.g. cleaning or residual charge elimination: cleaning of residual toner
G03G
Electrography

Lubricant supply device, image forming apparatus, and pressing device

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Lubricant supply device, image forming apparatus, and pressing device

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Abstract

Claims6