| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer cartridge capable of supplying a sufficient amount of toner from a supply opening. <P>SOLUTION: The developer cartridge includes a housing accommodating developer and an agitation member (agitator 200) for agitating the developer in the housing and supplying the developer to the developing device through the supply opening formed in the housing. The agitation member includes a rotation shaft 210 rotatably supported by the housing, a support plate 221 extending toward one end side in a radial direction from the rotation shaft 210, a delivery agitation blade 240 supported by the support plate 221 and passing through a position opposing the supply opening along an inner surface of the housing by rotation of the rotation shaft 210, an entire width of a base end 241 being supported by a distal end portion of the support plate 221, and a plurality of oblique agitation blades 230 erected from a surface of the support plate 221 and having a predetermined angle to the rotation shaft 210 in order to move the developer in an axial direction of the rotation shaft 210 toward the supply opening. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
