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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2017
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Noritoshi Hagimoto, Toyohashi, JP;
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A lubricant supply device for supplying lubricant to an image carrier of an image forming device, the lubricant supply device including: a block of solid lubricant; a lubricant supply member scraping lubricant from the block and supplying the lubricant to the image carrier; and a spring applying a biasing force to the block in a second direction inclined with respect to a first direction from the block towards the lubricant supply member, a component of the biasing force in the first direction pushing the block against the lubricant supply member. Positions of the spring and the block relative to each other are such that, as the block decreases due to the scraping by the lubricant supply member, the angle between the biasing force and the first direction decreases and the component of the biasing force in the first direction increases.