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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsYoshio Hattori, Atsushi Nakamoto, Yoshiyuki Fukuda, Toshio Koike, Hiroaki Okamoto
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Developing devices, process cartridges and image-forming apparatuses, having a chamber for conveying recovered developer on the top of another chamber for conveying supplying developer, where the developer is conveyed by screws inside the chambers respectively, when mixing and conveying the developing agent, a shielding member which separates the chambers, a guide section is provided in the shielding member to guide a developing agent which has left a developing roller toward the screw in the upper chamber, and a third communication section is provided next to the guide section, at the back of where the guided developer contacts the screw wings in the upper chamber, and the third communication section communicates the chambers with each other, and the third communication section is provided from center to downstream in the conveyance direction of the developer by the screw upper.
A developing apparatus for storing a developing agent which contains a toner and a carrier, and which develops a latent image on a latent image carrier with said toner, comprising:
A developing apparatus for storing a developing agent which contains a toner and a carrier, and which develops a latent image on a latent image carrier with said toner, comprising:
A developing device comprising:
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