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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
Chikara Tsutsui, Nishinomiya, JP;
Junji Murauchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Tetsuya Kagawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroaki Takada, Toyokawa, JP;
Chikara Tsutsui, Nishinomiya, JP;
Junji Murauchi, Toyokawa, JP;
Tetsuya Kagawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroaki Takada, Toyokawa, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A housing of a developing apparatus is provided with a conveying member in a developer supplying and recovering portion, and with two 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 two agitating members. A braking portion suppressing a discharge of a developer is provided in a downstream side of the developer agitating portion in a developer conveying direction of the second agitating member, and a discharge portion is provided in a downstream side of a disc of the braking portion.