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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
Junji Murauchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Chikara Tsutsui, Nishinomiya, JP;
Tetsuya Kagawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroaki Takada, Toyokawa, JP;
Junji Murauchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Chikara Tsutsui, Nishinomiya, JP;
Tetsuya Kagawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroaki Takada, Toyokawa, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A housing of a developing apparatus is provided with a conveying member in a developer supplying and recovering portion, and with first and second agitating members rotating from the below to the above in portions opposed to each other in a developer agitating portion. A guide is provided in an inner bottom surface of the housing between the first and second agitating members. A discharge portion provided with a developer discharge port is provided on a downstream side of the developer agitating portion in a developer conveying direction of the first agitating member. A suitable amount of developer can be circulated while conveying a part of an excess amount of developer in a circulating conveying path to the discharge portion and discharging from the developer discharge port. Packing and leaking of the developer within the developing apparatus and breakage of the developing apparatus can be prevented and also a good image can be obtained even if high printing images are continuously provided.