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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2019
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Masanori Kato, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomoyuki Yoshii, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshitaka Nakajima, Kanagawa, JP;
Norihiro Tamazawa, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing device includes a developer carrier that carries a developer to be supplied to an image carrier that forms an electrostatic latent image, a supply unit that supplies the developer containing toner and a carrier to the developer carrier by transporting the developer while agitating the developer along a circulation path formed through rotation of each of plural rotary members, and a delivery unit that receives a collected developer, which is the developer collected from the developer carrier, transports the collected developer by another rotary member different from the plural rotary members of the supply unit, and delivers the collected developer to the circulation path of the supply unit.