Developer supply device
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKenjiro Nishiwaki
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Abstract
A developer supply device carrying charged developer along a developer carrying path to a supply target, including: a carrying substrate that includes a plurality of carrying electrodes arranged along the developer carrying path and is configured to carry the developer through an electric field generated by voltage application to the plurality of carrying electrodes. The carrying substrate comprises a vertical carrying substrate provided to stand to carry the developer upward in a substantially vertical direction. The developer is supplied to the supply target around an upper end portion of the vertical carrying substrate.
Claims17
A developer supply device carrying charged developer along a developer carrying path to a supply target, comprising:
- a carrying substrate that includes a plurality of carrying electrodes arranged along the developer carrying path and is configured to carry the developer through an electric field generated by voltage application to the plurality of carrying electrodes;
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- a developer reservoir part accommodating the developer, wherein:
- the carrying substrate comprises a vertical carrying substrate provided to stand to carry the developer upward in a substantially vertical direction;
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- the developer is supplied to the supply target around an upper end portion of the vertical carrying substrate, and
- the carrying substrate further comprises a bottom carrying substrate that forms a bottom part of the developer reservoir part and is connected to a lower end part of the vertical carrying substrate so as to charge the developer by friction with the developer and to carry the developer to the lower end part of the vertical carrying substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.