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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2014
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yasutomo Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroaki Okuma, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryota Tomishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinji Okuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyohito Horii, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Nakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryo Fukuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiaki Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developing device includes a developer carrier that has a cylindrical shape and that rotates while carrying developer to supply the developer to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, a container that contains the developer carrier, and a discharge-path forming member that is provided along an outer peripheral surface of the developer carrier, that covers a top portion of a path along which the outer peripheral surface moves, the top portion being located at an uppermost position of the path, and that forms a discharge path, through which air is discharged from inside of the container to outside of the container, between the discharge-path forming member and an inner wall surface of the container, the discharge path having an outlet located closer to the developer carrier than the top portion.