Title:
画像形成装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP5880194
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable photoconductor and a developing device that uses a developer that exhibits magnetism, the developing device including a housing having an opening for development at a position facing the photoconductor, and plural developing rollers that are exposed through the opening in the housing, that rotate without contacting a surface of the photoconductor, and that are arranged without contacting each other in a direction in which the surface of the photoconductor rotates, wherein a minimum distance between an inner surface portion extending to the opening of the housing of the developing device and one of the developing rollers arranged close to the inner surface portion and a minimum distance between the housing and the surface of the photoconductor are each equal to or larger than a minimum distance between the developing rollers.
Inventors:
Yasuhiro Oda
Application Number:
JP2012067541A
Publication Date:
March 08, 2016
Filing Date:
March 23, 2012
Export Citation:
Assignee:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd
International Classes:
G03G15/08; G03G5/147; G03G9/087
Domestic Patent References:
| JP2006259588A | ||||
| JP2010175810A | ||||
| JP2002123086A |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tomohiro Nakamura
Katsuo Naruse
Masahiro Koizumi
Aoya Kazuo
Katsuo Naruse
Masahiro Koizumi
Aoya Kazuo