Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same

    公开(公告)号:US11914312B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US17858537

    申请日:2022-07-06

    Abstract: A developing device includes a developing container storing a two-component developer containing a magnetic carrier and a toner, a developer carrying member carrying the developer on its outer circumferential surface, and a regulation member arranged to be opposed at a prescribed distance to the developer carrying member. The developer carrying member includes a developing sleeve on which a magnetic brush is formed, and a magnet secured in the developing sleeve and having a plurality of magnetic poles including a regulation pole opposed to the regulation member and a downstream-side magnetic pole arranged downstream of the regulation pole with respect to the rotation direction of the developing sleeve. The magnet is such that the vertical magnetic force gradient [mT/°] has a local minimum value near a position at which the vertical magnetic force is 0 [mT] between the downstream-side surface of the regulation member and the downstream-side magnetic pole.

    ELECTROSTATIC LATENT IMAGE DEVELOPING CARRIER

    公开(公告)号:US20180329331A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US15973678

    申请日:2018-05-08

    Inventor: Yusuke KURANO

    Abstract: Carrier particles each include a carrier core having recesses in a surface thereof, and first and second coat layers covering the surface of the carrier core. The first and second coat layers are in a multi-layer structure in which the first coat layer and the second coat layer cover the surface of the carrier core in the stated order. The first coat layer entirely covers the surface of the carrier core. The second coat layer selectively covers regions of a surface of the first coat layer that correspond to the recesses in the surface of the carrier core. The first coat layer contains a first resin. The second coat layer contains a second resin. The second coat layer has a lower electric resistance than the first coat layer.

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