US 12,140,885 B2
Image forming apparatus including brush for surface of developer supplying member
Takanori Watanabe, Kanagawa (JP); Shinsuke Kobayashi, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuhiro Funatani, Kanagawa (JP); Kensuke Umeda, Kanagawa (JP); and Ai Suzuki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/866,669.
Application 17/866,669 is a continuation of application No. 17/330,517, filed on May 26, 2021, granted, now 11,422,485.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-095461 (JP), filed on Jun. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0350274 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/095 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0887 (2013.01) [G03G 15/095 (2013.01); G03G 21/0064 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording material, the image forming apparatus comprising:
a developer container that contains developer therein;
a developer supplying member that is rotatable and provided in the developer container; and
a brush provided in the developer container and in contact with a surface of the developer supplying member,
wherein the brush includes a plurality of fibers and a base portion on which the plurality of fibers is provided,
wherein the developer container includes a recess portion, and the brush is stationarily disposed in the recess portion and the base portion is fixed by contacting a surface of the developer container such that the brush is fit into the recess portion.