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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2006
Soon Cheol Kweon, Seoul, KR;
Kyu Ho Shin, Seoul, KR;
Kae Dong Back, Yongin-si, KR;
Chang Youl Moon, Suwon-si, KR;
Ki Deok Bae, Yongin-si, KR;
Won Kyoung Choi, Suwon-si, KR;
Chang Seung Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Soon Cheol Kweon, Seoul, KR;
Kyu Ho Shin, Seoul, KR;
Kae Dong Back, Yongin-si, KR;
Chang Youl Moon, Suwon-si, KR;
Ki Deok Bae, Yongin-si, KR;
Won Kyoung Choi, Suwon-si, KR;
Chang Seung Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus that may be easily and inexpensively manufactured is provided. The image forming apparatus includes: a toner supply unit; an image forming element to which toner is adsorbed from the toner supply unit; an image developing unit disposed on an outer side of the image forming element, wherein said image developing unit selectively separates from the image forming element at least a part of the toner adsorbed to the image forming element in order to develop an image on the image forming element; and a toner return unit which returns the toner separated from the image forming element by the image developing unit to the toner supply unit.