| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To save spaces in the developer conveying device and drop efficiently a waste toner on a belt-like conveying component without further increasing components. <P>SOLUTION: The developer conveying device comprises a conveying component 27 for supporting a developer between a plurality of external teeth 27b, which protrude from an external surface along a rotational direction at predetermined intervals, to convey it, and a guide component 36 for guiding the conveyance of the supported developer by the conveying component 27. A bend section 36a at the guide component 36 bends the conveying component 27 to change the inclination of the conveying component 27 on the front and rear side of the bend section 36a by contacting a portion of the conveying component 27, the conveying component 27 and the bend section 36a are contacted with each other at a position upstream of the upper end of the conveying component 27 in the rotational direction and downstream of the position where the developer is supplied to the conveying component 27, and drops the supported developer between the external teeth 27b at tha position passing the bend section 36a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
