Patent · US Expired

Developing device

US4958191A · kind A · utility

13Cited by
4References
15Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 31, 1989
Grant dateSep 18, 1990
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Expiry dateMar 31, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/0896
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A disconnecting mechanism or a driving force switching mechanism provided in a developing device functions so as to transmit a driving force from a driving source to a developer stirring mechanism only correlatively with a movement of each developing unit from a developer supply location adjacent to an image support member to a developer non-supply position away from the image support member. The disconnecting mechanism or the driving force switching mechanism functions so as to transmit a driving force from the driving source both to the developer stirring mechanism and a developing roll correlatively with the movement of each developing unit from the developer non-supply position to the developer supply location.

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