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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 14, 1991
Naoki Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Suzuki, Yokohama, JP;
Shigekazu Enoki, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroshi Takashima, Yono, JP;
Yuichi Ueno, Kawasaki, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing apparatus having a rotatable toner carrier for transporting a toner to a developing region where it faces an image carrier on which a latent image has been electrostatically formed. The surface of the toner carrier is constituted by a mixture of conductive surface portions and dielectric surface portions and selectively holds a charge to form microfields. The toner having been charged is electrostatically deposited on the toner carrier by the microfields and transported to the developing region as the toner carrier moves. In the developing region where the toner carrier and the image carrier face each other while defining a developing gap therebetween, the toner electrostatically flies from the toner carrier to the latent image formed on the image carrier to thereby develop it.