IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

• Main Authors: SOGA TATSUYA, SEKURA YUKI, HATTORI SHINTARO, KARIYA YOSHINOBU, OZAWA HIDEAKI, KANAYAMA KIYOTOSHI, TANAKA KUNIAKI, ISHII YASUTOMO, KUBO RYOTA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.05.2016
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a developer from getting clogged.SOLUTION: An image forming device (U) includes: an image holding body (PR); a developing device (G); a transfer device (Rt); a recovery device (CL) for recovering the developer remaining on the surface of the image holding body (PR) after transferring; a storage container (TC) stored with a new developer to be supplied to the developing device (G); a flow path (84+91+114) in which the developer of one of the recovery device (CL) and the storage container (TC) flows to a first flow path (84) in which the flowed developer flows to the developing device (G) and the developer of the other developer of the recovery device (CL) and the storage container (TC) flows to a second flow path (91) that merges with the first flow path; and a shaft (102) and a conveyance blade (104) supported by the shaft (102), and further includes a conveyance member (101) of the second flow path (91) arranged with the shaft (102) by entering into the first flow path (84).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11 【課題】現像剤を詰まり難くすること。【解決手段】像保持体（ＰＲ）と、現像装置（Ｇ）と、転写装置（Ｒｔ）と、転写後の像保持体（ＰＲ）の表面に残留した現像剤を回収する回収装置（ＣＬ）と、現像装置（Ｇ）に供給される新しい現像剤が収容された収容容器（ＴＣ）と、流入した現像剤が現像装置（Ｇ）に向かって流れる第１の流路（８４）には回収装置（ＣＬ）および収容容器（ＴＣ）の一方の現像剤が流入すると共に、第１の流路に合流する第２の流路（９１）には回収装置（ＣＬ）および収容容器（ＴＣ）の他方の現像剤が流入する流路（８４＋９１＋１１４）と、軸（１０２）と軸（１０２）に螺旋状に支持された搬送羽根（１０４）とを有し、軸（１０２）が第１の流路（８４）に進入して配置された第２の流路（９１）の搬送部材（１０１）と、を備えた画像形成装置（Ｕ）。【選択図】図１１