Imaging system
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsSatoshi MURAMATSU, Shinichiro SUZUKAWA, Tadao MORI
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Abstract
An imaging system includes a rotatable image carrier; a rotatable developer carrier, a storage container, and an air flow generator. The developer carrier transfers toner to the image carrier at a developing region located between the image carrier and the developer carrier. The storage container stores the developer carrier. The air flow generator is separated from the storage container by a gap, and rotates in a rotational direction that is opposite to a rotational direction of the developer carrier, to channel an air flow through the gap when the air flow generator rotates.
Claims15
An imaging system comprising:
- a rotatable image carrier;
- a rotatable developer carrier, to transfer toner to the image carrier at a developing region located between the image carrier and the developer carrier;
- a storage container to store the developer carrier;
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- an air flow generator separated from the storage container by a gap, the air flow generator to rotate in a rotational direction that is opposite to a rotational direction of the developer carrier, and to channel an air flow through the gap when the air flow generator rotates.
An imaging system comprising:
- a rotatable image carrier, to transfer a toner image to an endless belt;
- a rotatable developer carrier, to transfer toner to the image carrier at a developing region located between the image carrier and the developer carrier;
- a storage container to store the developer carrier;
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- an air flow generator located within the storage container between the developing region and the endless belt, wherein the air flow generator is separated from the storage container by a gap, the air flow generator to rotate in a rotational direction that is opposite to a rotational direction of the developer carrier, and to channel an airflow through the gap when the airflow generator rotates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.