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Patent No.:

US 9323180 B1

Date of Patent:

Apr. 26, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2014

Developing device collecting developer flowed from developing case by filter and applying vibration to filter to shake off developer and image forming apparatus including the same

Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiro Kashimoto, Osaka, JP;

Hiroaki Ohashi, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:

Studebaker & Brackett PC

Primary Examiner:

David Gray

Assistant Examiner:

Geoffrey Evans

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G03G 15/0898 (2013.01); G03G 15/0889 (2013.01); G03G 15/0893 (2013.01); G03G 21/206 (2013.01);

Abstract

A developing device includes a contact member and a developing adhesion member. The contact member is provided to an air releasing part communicating an inside and an outside of a developer case storing a developer containing a toner, in a condition being contactable with an agitating member agitating and conveying the developer in the developing case. The developing adhesion member is supported by the contact member and is configured to collect the developer within air flowing from the inside to the outside of the developing case and to receive vibration caused by agitating and conveying operations of the agitating member through the contact member.

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