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Developer holding body and developing apparatus

US7389074B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 1, 2006
Grant dateJun 17, 2008
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Expiry dateMay 30, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/0818
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In order to obtain the surface shape which is uniform in each of the circumferential direction and the axial direction without being deviated in one direction on the surface, a developer holding body is provided which is arranged so as to face an image holding body, holds a developer as a layer onto a roughened surface, and supplies the developer in order to develop an image which is formed on the image holding body, and wherein the roughening is executed on the basis of a ratio of cutting depths in a plurality of directions.

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