Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Industries, Ltd.

Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Other

Tsutomu Suzuki

Shougo Sato

Yasushi Okabe

Hiroshi Igarashi

Yasumasa Fujii

Fumio Morita

Fumikazu Sato

Shigeharu Katayama

Sakiko Kobayashi

Takahiro Nishimoto

Yasuo Fukamachi

Motoaki Mushika

Masahiro Ishii

Hikaru Yoshizumi

Takeyuki Takagi

Nao Itabashi

Hideshi Nishiyama

Isao Kishi

Yasutake Yamaguchi

Satoru Ishikawa

Yoshinori Ito

Shigeyuki Hayashi

Soichiro Nishimura

Hideo Yoshihara

Takashi Shimizu

Yoshiya Tomatsu

Makoto Ishii

Susumu Kuzuya

Hideaki Deguchi

Takashi Nakata

Yoshifumi Kajikawa

Naoyuki Hatta

Takeshi Izaki

Masaharu Minami

Noriyuki Kawada

Hiroaki Kimura

Katsuyoshi Sonobe

Kunihiko Kondo

Mitsuyoshi Uehara

Ikunobu Yoshiyama

Tatsushi Seko

Kazuo Kishimoto

Kuniharu Tobita

Susumu Taniguchi

Katsumi Nakamura

Kiyoshi Ogawa

Nobuhiko Kougo

Saburo Matsubayashi

Masayuki Hayakawa

A developing cartridge includes a casing, a rotating member, and an electrode member. The casing may be configured to accommodate therein developer. The rotating member has a rotational shaft extending in an axial direction. The rotating member is configured to rotate about the rotational shaft and carries the developer thereon. The electrode member is configured to be electrically connected to the rotating member. The electrode member covers at least part of the rotational shaft from an orthogonal direction orthogonal to the axial direction and is arranged to confront the casing in the axial direction. The electrode member is configured to move in the orthogonal direction in accordance with a movement in the axial direction.

Developing cartridge having electrode

In the image forming device, the main body has a loading port. The image bearing unit is configured to be detachably attached to the main body thorough the loading port. The toner unit is configured to be detachably attached to the main body thorough the loading port. The developer unit is configured to be detachably attached to the main body thorough the loading port. The toner unit, the developer unit, and the image bearing unit are located in this order from the loading port to an inside of the main body, when the toner unit, the developer unit, and the image bearing unit are attached in the main body. The toner unit is configured to be independently detached from the main body, when the image bearing unit and the developer unit are attached to the main body.

Image forming device having toner unit, developer unit, and image bearing unit

Aspects described herein relate to a cap for a toner cartridge. In one example, the cap may be configured to close a toner supply opening of the toner cartridge. According to one or more aspects, the cap may include a sealing or covering portion configured to cover the toner supply opening and a shaft portion for rotatably supporting a to-be-detected rotary member. The to-be-detected rotary memberis rotatably supported around and fitted onto the shaft portion. Therefore, even if a toner supply opening of a cartridge is provided in a sidewall of the housing on a side where the to-be-detected rotary member is provided, e.g., a left sidewall, the toner supply opening and the to-be-detected rotary member can be provided in such a manner as to overlap each other.

Cap configuration for a toner cartridge

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Nagoya, Japan

Tsutomu Suzuki