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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
May. 19, 2014
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Shinichi Kuramoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasutomo Ishii, Kanagawa, JP;
Ryota Tomishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinji Okuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a developing device including a storage container that stores a developer, a rotating body that supplies the developer to an image holding member in a supply region by being rotated with holding the developer, an inflow portion that is provided with an inflow port placed on a downstream side of the supply region in a rotation direction of the rotating body, and flows air into the storage container, and an outflow portion that is provided with an outflow port and emits air in the storage container from the outflow port, wherein the outflow port and the inflow port are placed to be adjacent to each other.