| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer transport device for efficiently and surely transporting a developer without clogging a transport pipe in a comparatively simple configuration by hardly damaging the developer and enabling a comparatively high degree of freedom of layout; and to provide an image forming apparatus thereof. <P>SOLUTION: The developer transport device for transporting the developers C and T comprises a transport tube 95 for transporting the developers C and T together with a gas blown in or out by a pump 100, one or a plurality of porous members 92a-92d arranged in a route of the transport tube 95, and a blowing means 91 for blowing in the gas in the inside of the transport tube 95 through the porous members 92a-92d. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |
