Mita Industrial Co., Ltd.

Minoru Nakao

Toshikazu Matsui

Akira Fushida

Nobuyasu Honda

Nobuyuki Tsuji

Disclosed is a development device comprising a development sleeve of a non-magnetic material, a magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles and fixed within the sleeve, a mechanism for rotating the sleeve, a mechanism for agitating a developer composed of a magnetic carrier and a chargeable toner and supplying it to the sleeve, a mechanism for adjusting a magnetic brush formed on the sleeve to a predetermined brush length and supplying it to a development zone, and a mechanism for scraping off the magnetic brush which has gone past the development zone from the sleeve, said magnetic poles consisting of a main pole for development corresponding to the development zone and poles for conveying corresponding to a conveying zone ranging from the position of supplying the developer to the position of cutting the magnetic brush, said magnetic carrier being a ferrite carrier, and each said conveying magnetic pole having a magnetic flux density 50 to 86% of that of the main pole for development.

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Kashiba, Japan

Minoru Nakao