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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2007
Kanji Yokomori, Odawara, JP;
Yuuki Nakamura, Suntou-gun, JP;
Kanji Yokomori, Odawara, JP;
Yuuki Nakamura, Suntou-gun, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing apparatus usable with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the apparatus including a developer accommodating container, a developer chamber including a developer carrying member carrying and feeding a developer supplied from the container to develop an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a stirrer stirring the developer in the chamber and supplying the developer from the container into the chamber through an opening in the container, a wall surface, provided in the container, for being contacted by a free end portion of the stirrer while the stirrer moves, and a detector detecting a remaining amount of the developer. The position where the free end portion of the stirrer separates from the wall surface is above the detector and inside the container.