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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2013
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Munenobu Okubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Tsutsumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinji Mitsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuaki Iikura, Kanagawa, JP;
Yosuke Ninomiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshifumi Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiko Noda, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirokazu Hamano, Kanagawa, JP;
Takafumi Wakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Sakuma, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing device includes a transporting unit that rotates while facing an image carrier that carries an electrostatic latent image, the transporting unit transporting developer toward the image carrier; a feeding unit that contacts the transporting unit to feed the developer to the transporting unit; a transport path that connects a containing chamber that contains the developer to a feeding chamber that houses the feeding unit; a supplying unit that retains the developer to be supplied in the transport path and supplies the developer to the feeding unit in a supply region that is separated from a contact region in which the feeding unit contacts the transporting unit; and an attaching unit that is disposed downstream of the contact region and upstream of the supply region in a rotation direction of the feeding unit and that attaches the developer to the feeding unit at a location below the contact region.