Title:
DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2018/123167
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The purpose of the present invention is to disengage a drive gear and a gear other than a rotating gear from each other. A developer cartridge 1, provided with: a casing 11 capable of containing a toner in the interior; a developing roller 12 extending in the axial direction; a developing electrode 20 electrically connected to the developing roller 12; a rack gear 50 that engages with a gear (agitator gear 31), the rack gear 50 having a protrusion (53, 54); and a cam 70 capable of moving from a first position to a second position set further away from the casing 11 than the first position in the axial direction. The cam 70 has: a first cam surface 73A, which comes into contact with the protrusion at the first position; and a second cam surface 76A, which moves while being in contact with the developing electrode 20 when the cam 70 moves from the first position to the second position, and thereby moves the developing electrode 20 away from the cam 70.
Inventors:
ITABASHI NAO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2017/034283
Publication Date:
July 05, 2018
Filing Date:
September 22, 2017
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BROTHER IND LTD (JP)
International Classes:
G03G15/08; G03G15/00; G03G21/16
Foreign References:
| JP2013037098A | 2013-02-21 | |||
| JP2011215374A | 2011-10-27 | |||
| US20040052559A1 | 2004-03-18 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
KITAZAWA, Kazuhiro et al. (JP)
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