Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Seitaro Yoshida

Kenichi Ashida

Sueaki Okamoto

Hiroshi Kageyama

Shinji Ogaki

Nobuhiro Nishioka

Hiroyuki Hamakawa

Masaki Sato

Yoshiaki Tabata

Kunio Nakai

Toner cartridge

A drum support structure equipped with a rotary drum and a drum support shaft. The rotary drum includes a cylindrical main body with a photosenstive member disposed on the peripheral surface thereof, and a front flange and a rear flange fixed to the front end and rear end of the main body. A hollow grip case is fitted to the front end of the drum support shaft. In the hollow grip case are disposed a pair of electrode pieces and a resilient urging means that resiliently presses the electrode pieces onto the drum support shaft. The rear flange is made of an electrically conductive material, and the photosensitive member is grounded via the rear flange, drum support shaft and electrode pieces. In the rotary drum is disposed an electric heating means. A pair of electrode rings are fastened to the front flange by means of coupling fittings. The electric heating means is connected to the power source via the coupling fittings and electrode rings.

Rotary drum structure in an image-forming machine

A toner hopper which is arranged upwards of the developing unit is elevatably supported in the image forming device in the vertical direction thereof and the connection between the toner hopper and the developing unit can be cancelled by lifting up the toner hopper when drawing out the developing unit so that the structure of the connection portion therebetween can be simplified and the sliding portion can be eliminated to thereby eliminate wearing at the connection therebetween. Furthermore, an apparatus for automatically raising and lowering the toner hopper and an apparatus for maintaining the horizontality of the toner hopper when being elevated and lowered is provided.

Developer unit and a toner hopper for an image forming device

A toner cartridge unit for a copying machine having a double shutter at the mouth of the toner cartridge. The double shutter is locked when the cartridge is not attached to a toner hopper of the copying machine and prevents toner from coming out. Owing to the double shutter structure, the outside of the cartridge is always clean. When the cartridge unit is attached to the hopper, many locking and releasing mechanisms for the double shutter and a third shutter provided at the hopper entrance work sequentially and automatically as the cartridge is moved from a preparation site to a supplying site of the toner hopper.

Cartridge unit

A corona wire cleaning device for a corona unit for cleaning corona wires stretched in a shield case, comprising: a driving wire wound on a driving pulley and an idle pulley for reciprocating motion along the length of the corona wire; and a cleaning member slidably mounted in the shield case for traveling motion in association with the reciprocating motion of the driving wire and having a cleaning tool which rubs and cleans the corona wire by the traveling motion thereof in one direction and which comes away from the corona wire by the traveling motion thereof in the other direction, whereby a foreign matter such as dust can be surely removed from the corona wire, thereby accomplishing reliable cleaning of the corona wire.

Corona wire cleaning device for a corona unit

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Osaka, Japan

Seitaro Yoshida