Toner carrier for developing device for electrostatic printing apparatus

Abstract

A toner carrier in a mono-ingredient nonmagnetic developing device for an electrostatic printing machine which is a roller rotating in contact with a latent image carrier to carry toner on a surface of the latent image carrier, and to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on the latent image carrier with the toner. A toner carrier according to the first invention comprises a rotating shaft, an elastic layer surrounding the shaft, and a thin resin layer built up around the elastic layer or a thin resin cylinder provided with conductivity. A toner carrier according to the second invention comprises a conductive rotating shaft, an elastic layer surrounding the shaft, a thin cylinder surrounding the elastic layer and a toner carrying layer surrounding the cylinder, where the thin cylinder is conductive and the elastic layer is conductive or semi-conductive. And a toner carrier according to the third invention comprises a rotating shaft, an elastic layer surrounding the shaft, and a base consisting of a thin cylinder surrounding the elastic layer, where the elastic layer is made of compression molded soft urethane foam.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.