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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2017
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yasutomo Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Shunichiro Shishikura, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiaki Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Okuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Uchimitsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryo Fukuno, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing device includes a container that contains a developer including a carrier and a toner; a transport member that is rotatably disposed in the container and that agitates and transports the developer in a rotation-axis direction thereof; a discharge outlet that has an opening in a side wall of the container facing in a direction perpendicular to the rotation-axis direction, the discharge outlet allowing the developer to be discharged to an outside of the container when a height of a surface of the developer becomes greater than a height of a lower surface of the discharge outlet; and a magnetic member that is disposed at a position that is above the lower surface of the discharge outlet and that overlaps the lower surface in an up-down direction, the magnetic member attracting a part of the developer that is lifted up by the transport member.