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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1991
Yoshiumi Tamiya, Yokohama, JP;
Seiichi Miyakawa, Nagareyama, JP;
Kazuaki Iizuka, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Shimizu, Kawasaki, JP;
Shigeru Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Kiyoshi Ohshima, Yokohama, JP;
Tadahiro Suzuki, Kawasaki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing apparatus using a liquid developer and a developing head located to face a path along which a recording medium carrying, for example, an electrostatic latent image thereon is transported. A groove is formed in the surface of the head that faces the transport path. After development, the liquid remaining at the corner defined by the upper inner portion of the groove and the medium is rapidly collected to allow a minimum of smear to occur on the part of the medium which will be transported later. When the transport of the medium should be interrupted during development due to, for example, a jam, the liquid in the groove is collected to prevent a great amount of liquid which would smear a drive roller and other transport members from being transferred from the head to the medium.