FEEDER, TECHNOLOGICAL CARTRIDGE AND IMAGING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G03G21/00 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions includes a feeder designed to feed a developer, a technological cartridge that can be inserted into a basic unit of the imaging device, and an imaging device. Moreover, the feeder designed to feed the developer contains a cleaning element, which is designed to remove the developer from the image transfer member and is in contact with the image transfer member, a containing part for receiving a remote developer, a flow element intended to feed the developer from the said containing part, and a sheet element in contact with the image transfer member. The wall surface of the said containing part is located on the side where the said sheet element is provided with respect to a straight line connecting the center of rotation of the image transfer member with the rotation center of the said feeder in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the image transfer member, wherein the said wall surface reaches a straight line with increasing the level relative to the vertical direction. The said feeder is provided above the vertical positions, and the said cleaning element is in contact with the image transfer member, and thus the direction of rotation of the said feeder coincides with the direction of rotation of the image transfer member.

EFFECT: providing a feeder, a technological cartridge, and an imaging device that are capable of increasing the efficiency of feeding the developer to a predetermined feed channel, along with suppressing the reduction in cleaning efficiency due to the pressure applied to the contact portion located between the cleaning element and the photosensitive drum by the developer accumulated in the cleaning module.

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