Developer Container Position Regulator for Sealant Leakage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing developer containers face challenges in maintaining effective seals and regulating the position of components to prevent sealant leakage and ensure proper adhesion, which can lead to inefficient developer storage and image formation in image forming apparatuses.
Innovation Solution
A developer container design that includes a sealant to bond components and a position regulator to maintain a predetermined distance between adhesion portions of the components, preventing excessive sealant crushing and leakage, and ensuring secure bonding between the components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If components are bonded using sealant without position regulation, then assembly is simple, but sealant leakage occurs and bonding reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
A positioning protrusion on one component fits into a positioning groove on the other component, acting as an intermediary mechanical feature that regulates relative position. This positioning mechanism works together with the sealant to prevent leakage while maintaining assembly simplicity, resolving the contradiction between bonding reliability and assembly complexity.
2Manufacturing precision
If components are positioned precisely to prevent sealant leakage, then sealing performance improves, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning protrusion and positioning groove are pre-formed features on the components during molding or manufacturing. This preliminary action establishes the precise relative position requirement before assembly, allowing standard manufacturing processes to achieve the needed precision without adding complex post-manufacturing adjustment steps.
3Strength
If sealant is applied generously to ensure bonding, then bonding strength improves, but sealant leakage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning protrusion and groove create a localized confined space that directs the sealant to specific areas where it is most effective. This local quality approach ensures sealant is applied precisely where needed for bonding strength while preventing it from leaking to unwanted areas, resolving the contradiction between bonding strength and sealant leakage.
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AI summary
A developer container includes a plurality of components combined together to form a space to store a developer. The plurality of components includes a first component and a second component. The developer container further includes a sealant to bond the first component and the second component, and a position regulator to regulate relative positions of the first component and the second component so as to maintain a distance between an adhesion portion of the first component and an adhesion portion of the second component.