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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1988
Atsushi Hosoi, Tokyo, JP;
Hatsuo Tajima, Matsudo, JP;
Takashi Saito, Ichikawa, JP;
Norihisa Hoshika, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroshi Tajika, Yokohama, JP;
Masaaki Yamaji, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing method including forming a layer of electrically charged toner particles on a surface of the developer carrying member and dispersing magnetic particles retaining on their surfaces electrically charged toner particles on the surface of the developer carrying member, carrying the particles on the developer carrying member to a developing position where a surface of an electrostatic latent image bearing member for bearing an electrostatic latent image is opposed with a clearance to the surface of the developer carrying member, applying an alternating electric field across the clearance and forming the magnetic particles into chains of the magnetic particles by magnetic field generating means disposed behind the developer carrying member, and developing the electrostatic latent image by the charged toner particles on the surface of the developer carrying member and on the surfaces of the magnetic particles.