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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2005
Akinobu Okuda, Toyonaka, JP;
Kazumasa Hayashi, Kobe, JP;
Akinori Toyoda, Katano, JP;
Masao Ootsuka, Sakai, JP;
Hideki Yasuda, Toyonaka, JP;
Naoki Takahashi, Kyotanabe, JP;
Akinobu Okuda, Toyonaka, JP;
Kazumasa Hayashi, Kobe, JP;
Akinori Toyoda, Katano, JP;
Masao Ootsuka, Sakai, JP;
Hideki Yasuda, Toyonaka, JP;
Naoki Takahashi, Kyotanabe, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The developing apparatus of the present invention includes a developer holding member for supplying a developer including a toner and a carrier onto the surface of an electrostatic latent image holding member; first developer transporter for transporting the developer in a first direction, the first developer transporter being disposed in a first developer transport path; second developer transporter for transporting the developer in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction and supplying the developer to the developer holding member, the second developer transporter being disposed in a second developer transport path; a magnet roller for drawing up the developer that has been transported through the second developer transport path into the first developer transport path; and an inclined surface that is disposed in contact with or close to the surface of the magnet roller and that is inclined such that the height thereof decreases along the first direction, wherein the developer that is held on the magnet roller is detached by the inclined surface, and the detached developer is transported in the first direction, and wherein a space in the first developer transport path that surrounds the magnet roller has a portion having a cross-sectional open area larger than that of a space in the first developer transport path that surrounds the first developer transporter.