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Developing apparatus, apparatus unit, and image forming method

US6391511B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 13, 1999
Grant dateMay 21, 2002
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Expiry dateApr 13, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2215/0861
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A developing apparatus has a developer container for holding a developer, a developer carrying member for carrying a positively chargeable developer held in the developer container and transporting the developer to a developing zone and a developer layer-thickness regulating member for regulating the thickness of a positively chargeable developer layer to be formed on the developer carrying member. The developer carrying member has at least a substrate and a resin coat layer formed of a resin composition on the surface of the substrate. The resin composition contains at least (I) a binder resin, (II) a conductive fine powder, (III) spherical particles having a number-average particle diameter of from 0.3 &mgr;m to 30 &mgr;m and (IV) a quaternary ammonium salt compound which is positively chargeable to iron powder.

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