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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2009
Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Ochi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichiro Fujimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Ogi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiko Noda, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takashi Ochi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichiro Fujimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kenji Ogi, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiko Noda, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A development unit includes a developer accommodating part that accommodates a developer therein, a developer stirring-transporting member that transports the developer in the developer accommodating part while stirring the developer, a bearing part that receives a rotating shaft of the developer stirring-transporting member, a magnetic member that is located between the bearing part and the developer accommodating part and fixed around the rotating shaft, and a stirring member that is spaced apart from the magnetic member so as to be opposed to the magnetic member and that is arranged at the rotating shaft of the developer stirring-transporting member.