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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Yu Sasaki, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A developing device has a developer container, first and second stirring members, and a developer carrying member. The developer container has a plurality of transport chambers including first and second transport chambers, a communication portion through which the first and second transport chambers mutually communicate in opposite end parts thereof in their longitudinal direction, a developer supply port, and a developer discharge port arranged in a downstream-side end part of the second transport chamber. The second stirring member has a second transport blade, a regulating portion formed on the downstream side of the second transport blade, a discharge blade formed on the downstream side of the regulating portion and discharging developer through the developer discharge port, and a disk formed at a position facing the downstream-side communication portion on the upstream side of the regulating portion and radially protruding over the entire circumference of a rotary shaft.