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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2024
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Shigehiro, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a development apparatus that includes a first roller to be supplied with developer accommodated in a first chamber, a first magnet, a second roller to which the developer is delivered from the first roller through a magnetic field generated by the first magnet, which is arranged to face the first roller, the second roller bearing and conveying the developer to collect the developer in a second chamber after the electrostatic latent image is developed, and a second magnet, in a case where ten-point average roughness of an outer circumferential surface of the first roller is Rz1 and ten-point average roughness of an outer circumferential surface of the second roller is Rz2, 0.35×Rz1≤Rz2 and 7 μm≤Rz1≤15 μm.
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