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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 11, 1998
Kenya Ogawa, Numazu, JP;
Yukihiro Ozeki, Yokohama, JP;
Katsuhiro Sakaizawa, Numazu, JP;
Takeshi Yamamoto, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing apparatus has a developer carrying member for carrying a developer thereon and conveying it to a developing area opposed to an image bearing member, an agitating member for agitating the developer to be supplied to the developer carrying member and a stripping device for stripping off the developer having passed the developing area from the developer carrying member wherein the developer stripped off from the developer carrying member by the stripping device is guided to a position farther from the developer carrying member than a position at which the agitating member is disposed.