DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS CARTRIDGE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer container capable of reducing oscillations and sound which occur when a front end side of an agitator passes difference in level formed by a cover member and a container main body.

SOLUTION: A developing device 34 includes; a developer container 50 which is constituted by coupling a container main body 53 having an opening 51 to a cover member 55 closing the opening 51 and stores a developer therein; a developer agitator 54 which has a front end side 57 and agitates the developer while causing the front end side 57 to abut on an inside wall of the developer container 50; and a level difference covering member 68 being a means for reducing oscillation of the developer agitator 54, which occurs when the front end side 57 passes the difference in level formed between the container main body 53 and the cover member 55.

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