Xerox Corporation

Victoria F DeYoung

Jorge Antonio Alvarez

Cyril G Edmunds

Dale Robert Mashtare

Steven C Hart

Fei Xiao

A magnetic core includes an array of permanent magnets bonded to a cylindrical core. The magnets are formed of an extruded magnetic composite material containing a neodymium-boron-iron alloy. The magnetic core contains regions of alternating magnetic polarization arranged to create a multipole structure. Such extruded magnets easily constructed at low cost and offer close magnetic pole spacing with little or negligible surface discontinuity.

Magnetic core for use in a development system

A system for sealing a member mounted in a support to rotate about an axis thereof and being at least partially in a chamber of a housing with magnetic particles being disposed at least in a region between the housing and the member. The system includes a magnetic member including a plurality of magnetic poles with magnetization axes extending in a direction substantially transverse to the axis of the member.

Multi-lobe magnetic seals

A development unit for electrostatic printing is designed to eliminate used developer at a steady rate. A barrier mounted in the housing defines in the housing a first chamber adapted to store a supply of developer material therein, and a second chamber adapted to receive excess developer material from the first chamber of the housing. A transport is mounted in the second chamber, for advancing developer material from the barrier.

Development unit for electrostatographic printing having a spillover

A development apparatus includes a housing defining a chamber holding a supply of two-component developer material consisting of toner, and magnetizable carrier beads. The development apparatus also includes an extended life, increased reliability magnetic roll assembly within the housing for repeatably transporting a desired quantity of attracted developer material, fed from the chamber, for movement through the development zone. The improved magnetic roll assembly includes a rotatable non-conductive shell or substrate surrounding a magnetic member so as to prevent the creation of eddy currents in the substrate during its rotation. The substrate has an elastomeric coating layer formed over it. The elastomeric coating layer has a mechanically deformable smooth surface for effectively holding, even at relatively high rates of speed, the quantity of attracted developer material thereon being transported. The smooth surface is deformable by magnetized carrier beads acting under the influence of the magnetic member.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Victoria F DeYoung