Patent ID: 8855523
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A developer-adhesive body unit detachably mounted to an image forming apparatus, said developer-adhesive body unit comprising: a developer-adhesive body having a surface to which a developer adheres; a cleaning member that removes said developer from said surface of said developer-adhesive body; a developer storage portion for storing said developer removed by said cleaning member; a contact portion that contacts said surface of said developer-adhesive body at an upstream side of said cleaning member in a moving direction of said surface of said developer-adhesive body, and a contact-and-separation unit that causes said surface of said developer-adhesive body and said contact portion to contact each other or to separate from each other, a seal member that contacts a surface of said developer-adhesive body at an upstream side of said cleaning member in said moving direction of said surface of said developer-adhesive body, and a developer holding portion provided at an upstream side of said seal member in said moving direction of said surface of said developer-adhesive body, said developer holding portion holding said developer removed from said surface of said developer-adhesive body by said seal member; and wherein said contact-and-separation unit causes said surface of said developer-adhesive body and said contact portion to separate from each other when said developer-adhesive body unit is mounted to said image forming apparatus and said surface of said developer-adhesive body moves, and causes said surface of said developer-adhesive body and said contact portion to contact each other when said developer-adhesive body unit is not mounted to said image forming apparatus.