Patent ID: 7684738
Filing Date: 2010-03-23
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A developer feeder for wet development apparatus, the developer feeder comprising: a developing roller rotationally engaged with a photoconductor drum, a plurality of feed rollers in part immersed in a liquid developer and rotationally engaged with the developing roller for supplying the liquid developer onto the developing roller, and a smoother roller axially movable to reciprocate while rotating in the same circumferential direction in which said developing roller is rotated, wherein the feed rollers have smooth peripheral surfaces and are arranged circumferentially of the developing roller, wherein said feed rollers are rotated at a same peripheral speed and in a same circumferential direction to that in which said developing roller is rotated, wherein said peripheral speed is variable, wherein the feed rollers have a downstream feed roller downstream from one or more other feed rollers in the circumferential rotation direction of the developing roller, and wherein the smoother roller is positioned for rotational engagement with the developing roller between a place at which the downstream feed roller is rotationally engaged with the developing roller and a place at which the developing roller is rotationally engaged with said photoconductor drum.