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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2009
Hideo Izawa, Narashino, JP;
Takao Namiki, Narashino, JP;
Junichi Setoyama, Narashino, JP;
Kotaro Harada, Narashino, JP;
Sumito Mera, Narashino, JP;
Hideo Izawa, Narashino, JP;
Takao Namiki, Narashino, JP;
Junichi Setoyama, Narashino, JP;
Kotaro Harada, Narashino, JP;
Sumito Mera, Narashino, JP;
Miyakoshi Printing Machinery Co., Ltd., Narashino-shi, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
A wet type developing apparatus is disclosed which can eliminate the need to provide a separately built cleansing unit and, moreover, makes it unnecessary to dismount a developer supply unit for its cleansing operation and to perform its subsequent re-mounting operation. The apparatus in which a developing rolleris in rotational contact with a rotating photoconductor drumand an electrostatic latent image made on a surface of the photoconductor drum is developed with a liquid developersupplied onto the developing roller from a developer supply rollerwhose surface is in part immersed in the liquid developer reserved in a developer reservoir, includes a cleansing arrangement, comprising a unit or unitsand/or, which is disposed at a site in the developer reservoir which is always immersed in the liquid developer for cleansing a portion of the developer supply roller which is immersed in the liquid developer.