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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2008
Masayoshi Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Fujinuma, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Tateyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Kubo, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Nakayama, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Fujinuma, Tokyo, JP;
Susumu Tateyama, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuya Kubo, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disclosed developing device includes a developer carrier including a developing sleeve and a magnetic roller provided inside the developing sleeve. The magnet roller includes a regulating magnetic pole and a pump-up magnetic pole that have different polarities from each other. Among an entire region of the moving surface of the developing sleeve in the surface movement direction, a maximum pump-up magnetic force position where the pump-up magnetic force of the pump-up magnetic pole is maximum faces an upstream position with respect to a supplying position at which the developer is supplied from a supplying screw to the developing sleeve.