Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Youichirou Gotoh

Mitsuaki Kurokawa

Toru Nose

Yoshinori Senoh

Michiaki Satoh

An image forming apparatus includes a photoreceptor, and a developing unit arranged in the vicinity of the photoreceptor. At an upstream side from the developing unit, a precharger is provided in a manner that the same is brought into contact with a surface of the photoreceptor. A developing bias voltage is applied to a developing sleeve, and a charging voltage is applied to the precharger. After the photoreceptor is charged by the precharger, the surface of the photoreceptor is brought into contact with a magnetic brush formed by a developing agent in which an insulative toner and a semiconductive magnetic carrier is mixed, whereby the photoreceptor is charged again by the developing bias voltage through the semiconductive magnetic carrier.

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Gifu, Japan

Youichirou Gotoh