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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1996
Susumu Mikawa, Itami, JP;
Noboru Ito, Kawanishi, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A developing device which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image-bearing member in an image forming apparatus. The developing device has a developer transporting member for transporting a developer to the image-bearing member, and a rotatable regulating member provided at an upstream side from the developing region with respect to a transporting direction of the developer transporting member for regulating an amount of the developer held on the developer transporting member. The regulating member includes a regulating portion which has a section wherein a distance from a rotational axis of the regulating member to periphery of the regulating portion is not fixed.