Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp.

Tadashi Kureyama

Toshio Takiguchi

Takashi Anzai

A developing device includes a first housing member, and a second housing member that is configured by combining a housing, in which a developer accommodation space accommodating a developer and a roll accommodation space accommodating a development roll are provided, and the first housing member with each other and that includes an integrated member obtained by integrally forming a frame-shaped seal attachment portion and an outer shell portion with each other, the seal attachment portion being a portion to which a seal member separating the developer accommodation space and the roll accommodation space from each other is attached, the outer shell portion constituting an outer shell that separates an inside and an outside of the housing from each other.

Developing device and image forming apparatus

A connection structure includes a receiving port for a developer, that is provided in a developing machine, a supply port for a developer, that is provided in a replenisher, a connecting portion that is provided in a vicinity of the supply port of the replenisher and connects the developing machine and the replenisher to each other in a state where a developer is suppliable from the supply port to the receiving port in a case where a portion in a vicinity of the receiving port of the developing machine is inserted, a leading surface that is provided at the connecting portion and leads the portion in the vicinity of the receiving port of the developing machine to the connecting portion, an opening and closing member that opens and closes the receiving port by moving in an insertion direction of the developing machine, and a contact member that is provided at the opening and closing member and comes into contact with the leading surface in an elastically deformed state in a case where the developing machine and the replenisher are connected to each other.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Tadashi Kureyama