DEVELOPING DEVICE

Abstract: a device for use in an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus includes first and second chambers accommodating a developer and which is provided with a communicating port through which the first and second chambers communicate, a roller to bear the developer accommodated in the second chamber, and a conveyance member to convey, by being rotated, the developer in the first chamber toward the second chamber through the communication port. a detecting member is provided above the communication port. the conveyance member and the container are configured so that a second end portion of a sheet is maintained in a bent state by contacting an inner surface constituting the first chamber of the container until the second end portion of the sheet passes in front of an upstream end of the communication port in a rotation direction of the conveyance member and then reaches the detecting member.

Inventor(s): Satoshi Sunahara, Satoru Motohashi, Go Shindo, Shuhei Tokiwa

CPC Classification: G03G15/0856 (using a solid developer, e.g. powder developer)

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