US 11,726,418 B2
Developer container, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
Naohiro Kawashima, Kanagawa (JP); Kei Saito, Tokyo (JP); Kentarou Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP); and Kunihiro Ohyama, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/744,730.
Application 17/744,730 is a continuation of application No. 17/316,797, filed on May 11, 2021, granted, now 11,366,410.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-090813 (JP), filed on May 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0276586 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0889 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0867 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bearing, comprising:
a seal including fiber to contact an outer circumferential surface of a rotary shaft; and
a flexible sheet which contacts an end portion of the seal.