| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 399105000 | Elastic material | 8 |
| 20090087215 | DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE AND DEVELOPING UNIT - A developing unit includes a developer cartridge for accommodating developer and including a first opening for enabling communication between an inside of the developer cartridge and an outside of the developer cartridge, a housing including a cartridge housing part and a second opening provided in a position opposite to the first opening and formed toward the cartridge housing part, a shutter including a third opening and being movable between an open position and a closed position, and a protruding portion provided at an upstream end portion of the third opening in a movement direction of the shutter from the open position to the closed position and including a first end at a side close to the first opening and a second end at a side close to the second opening. The first end protrudes more downstream in the movement direction than the second end. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090092411 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND MANUFACTURING METHOD FOR DEVELOPER CONTAINER - A developer container for an image forming apparatus, said developer container including a rotatable member; a container body for containing a developer; a sealing member, provided in the container body, for preventing leakage of the developer out of the container body; a sheet, provided in the container body, for contacting the rotatable member to guide the developer into the container body; a gap provided between the container body and the sealing member and covered by the sheet; a communication hole provided in the container body in fluid communication with the gap; packing material filled in the gap through the communication hole for preventing leakage of the developer through the gap. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090116867 | DEVELOPER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE DEVELOPER CONTAINER WITH SEALING MECHANISM PROVIDING ENHANCED USABILITY - A developer container supplies developer to a development device and includes a storage, an opening, a first seal member, a through-hole, and a second seal member. The developer is supplied from the storage to the development device through the opening. The first seal member seals the opening and is pulled in a predetermined direction to unseal the opening. The through-hole guides the first seal member toward an opposite side of the opening. The second seal member is provided on at least one of a lead-in opening and a lead-out opening of the through-hole and elastically blocks the at least one of the lead-in opening and the lead-out opening. A non-bonded portion of the second seal member elastically blocks the at least one of the lead-in opening and the lead-out opening when the first seal member is pulled out from the through-hole through the non-bonded portion. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090274482 | Developing Unit and Side Seal Member - A developing unit is provided, which includes: a developer carrier; a housing; and a side sealing member disposed between an end part of the developer carrier and a portion of the housing adjacent to a supply port. The side sealing member includes an elastic member having an integral base part attached to the portion of the housing and plural integral projections protruding from the base part toward the developer carrier in a protruding direction. A distal end part of each of the projection has an inclination face inclined so that a part of the inclination face is closer to the supply port as the part of the inclination face is farther from the base part in the protruding direction. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100150604 | SEALING MEMBER AND PROCESS CARTRIDGE - Provided is a sealing member for preventing leakage of a developer from a developer containing portion of a process cartridge detachable from a main body of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus to an outside of the developer containing portion. The sealing member is made of a thermoplastic elastomer that contains at least a copolymer and a plasticizer. In a molecular weight distribution of a tetrahydrofuran soluble matter of the thermoplastic elastomer measured by gel permeation chromatography, at least one peak is present in each of a region of a molecular weight of 4,000 or less and a region of a molecular weight of 30,000 to 200,000, and a percentage of a component of a molecular weight of 800 or less in a region of a molecular weight of 5,000 or less is 30% or less. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20110170903 | DEVELOPING DEVICE FRAME UNIT, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF THE DEVELOPING DEVICE FRAME UNIT - A developing device frame unit supporting a regulating member regulating the layer thickness of developer on a developer carrier. The unit includes a frame having a seal forming portion, first and second, first and second end seals contactable to the carrier surface to prevent carrier-axial-direction leaking of the developer, and a blade sealer sealing between the regulating member and the frame to prevent developer leaking when the regulating member is mounted. The blade sealer is an elastomer resin material which is injection-molded with a metal mold and in the seal forming portion where the end seals are provided. The blade sealer connects the end seals with each other, and a protrusion provided by a squeezed-out portion of the resin material is provided by injecting, into a space defined by the metal mold, the seal forming portion, and the end seal seals, a resin material volume larger than a volume of the space. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120269538 | Developing Device - A developing device includes a developer carrier, a developing unit housing which rotatably supports the developer carrier, a side seal member which comes into slidable contact with both ends of the developer carrier, a sheet-like elongated seal member which extends in the axial direction of the developer carrier so as to come into slidable contact with the developer carrier, a side seal attachment surface which is formed in the developing unit housing and to which the side seal member is attached, and a support portion which is formed in the developing unit housing and protrudes toward the developer carrier from the side seal attachment surface to support the elongated seal member. The elongated seal member is attached onto the support portion in a state where both ends thereof overlap the side seal member and are opposite the side seal attachment surface. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120269539 | Developing Device - A developing device includes a developer carrier, a developing unit housing which rotatably supports the developer carrier, a side seal member which comes into slidable contact with both ends of the developer carrier, a sheet-like elongated seal member which extends in the axial direction of the developer carrier so as to come into slidable contact with the developer carrier, a side seal attachment surface which is formed in the developing unit housing and to which the side seal member is attached, and a support portion which is formed in the developing unit housing and protrudes toward the developer carrier from the side seal attachment surface to support the elongated seal member. The elongated seal member is attached onto the support portion in a state where both ends thereof overlap the side seal member and are opposite the side seal attachment surface. | 10-25-2012 |
