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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1997
Ryuji Goto, Fukaya, JP;
Koji Noguchi, Saitama-ken, JP;
Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing apparatus including a magnetic conveying means 4 comprising a non-magnetic metal sleeve 7, onto which a developer containing a magnetic toner and a magnetic carrier is attracted, a permanent magnet member 8 having a plurality of magnetic poles and stationary inside the sleeve 7; a casing 1a having a developer-containing portion 5 for receiving the magnetic conveying means 4 and a toner-containing portion 3 disposed adjacent to the developer-containing portion 5 for storing the magnetic toner; and a doctor blade 10 for regulating a thickness of the developer 11 on the sleeve 7, the sleeve 7 being rotated such that the magnetic toner is attracted onto a surface of an electrostatic image-bearing member 12, further comprising a downward partition 3a and an upward partition 3b between the developer-containing portion 5 and the toner-containing portion 3 in such a positional relation that the downward partition 3a is closer to the sleeve 7 than the upward partition 3b, a developer which has not passed through a gap between the doctor blade 10 and the sleeve 7 being mixed with a freshly supplied magnetic toner in a region R defined by the downward partition 3a, the upward partition 3b, the sleeve 7 and an inner wall of the casing 1a.