摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developing device having a developer residence regulating member which prevents the residence of a developer by a developer regulating member and without causing uneven image density, and provide a process cartridge equipped with the developing device and an image forming device such as a copying machine, facsimile, and a printer equipped with the developing device or the process cartridge. SOLUTION: The developing device has the developer regulating member 42 which regulates the thickness of the developer on a developer carrier 41 and the developer residence regulating member 43 arranged facing the developer carrier 41 in direct upstream of the developer regulating member 42 in the conveyance direction B of the developer by the developer carrier 41 and has a gap which becomes small toward the downstream side in the conveyance direction B between the developer residence regulating member 43 and the developer carrier 41. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |