Image forming unit having agitating portion and image forming apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorsTetsu Koyama, Takuya Goto
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Abstract
A image forming unit includes an image forming unit including an image bearing body that bears a latent image, a developer bearing body that develops the latent image, a developer supplying portion that supplies the developer to the developer bearing body, an agitating portion provided in the vicinity of the developer supplying portion and including a plate member for agitating the developer in the vicinity of the developer supplying portion and a rotation shaft that holds the plate member, and a driving mechanism that causes the plate member of the agitating portion to reciprocatingly swing about the rotation shaft.
Claims10
An image forming unit comprising:
- an image bearing body that bears a latent image;
- a developer bearing body that develops said latent image;
- a developer supplying portion that supplies said developer to said developer bearing body;
- an agitating portion provided in the vicinity of said developer supplying portion, said agitating portion including a plate member for agitating said developer in the vicinity of said developer supplying portion and a rotation shaft that holds said plate member, and
- a driving mechanism that causes said plate member of said agitating portion to reciprocatingly swing in an arc about said rotation shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.