| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer container, a developing apparatus and a process cartridge which are significantly simpler in constitution and smaller than those according to prior art and are capable of satisfactorily conveying the developer therein. <P>SOLUTION: The developing apparatus 4 includes a developer carrier 17; a development chamber 18b provided with the developer carrier 17; and a conveying member 22 for supplying the developer from a developer storage chamber 18a to the development chamber 18b by rotation thereof. The developing apparatus includes a deforming portion 18a2, which is brought into contact with the conveying member 22 and causes the conveying member 22 to deform, with the rotation of the conveying member 22, and is located below an opening 18c; and a recovery portion 18a4, which permits deformation of the conveying member 22 released from pressing by the deforming portion 18a2 with the rotation of the conveying member 22, in a direction where it is recovered by elastic force, and is located on the downstream side of the deforming part 18a2 and on the upstream side of the opening in terms of the rotational direction of the conveying member 22 in the developer storage chamber 18a. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT |
