Developing device and image forming system

Abstract

A developing device includes: a housing that accommodates a developer and that has an opening facing an image holding body capable of holding a latent image; a developing member that is rotatably provided in the housing, that is exposed from the opening, that is capable of holding the developer on an outer periphery of the developing member, and that develops the latent image with the held developer while rotating; and a covering member that covers a gap between the developing member and the housing downstream of a development position of the developing member in a rotation direction, that covers a first region in the gap corresponding to one end portion of the developing member in a rotation axis direction, and that does not cover at least a part of an intermediate region in the gap corresponding to a region between both end portions of the developing member in the rotation axis direction.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.