摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a carrier replenishing device capable of stably supplying a carrier from a carrier container for replenishment containing the carrier by a certain amount for a long time, and also to provide a developing device mounted with the same, and an image forming apparatus equipped with the same. <P>SOLUTION: The carrier replenishing device of the developing device A employing a development system using a two-component developer consisting of toner 22 and a carrier 11 and constituted so that the carrier 11 is supplied to the inside by a small amount at each time and an excessive two-component developer is discharged to the outside by a small amount at each time is arranged above a development section 37, and constituted so that the carrier 11 is gravitationally supplied to the development section 37 by the fixed amount at each time. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |