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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Hitachi Metals, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic carrier for a developer used in electrostatically forming a visual image, comprising a magnetic core material, an electrically-conductive particle-containing resin layer and electrically-conductive particles externally added to the electrically-conductive particle-containing resin layer, the magnetic carrier having a magnetization (.sigma..sub.1000) of 61-100 emu/g at 1 kOe magnetic field, a specific volume resistance of 10.sup.6 .OMEGA..multidot.cm or less, and an average particle size of 10-100 .mu.m. The magnetic carrier of low specific volume resistance has a high durability and provides high quality images. In particular, when the magnetic carrier is applied to an image forming process by rear side exposure, the residual toner on the image-bearing member can be effectively removed without using an additional cleaning means, and high quality images free from the background fogging and contamination can be produced.