DEVELOPER REGULATING MEMBER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a developer regulating member capable of regulating a developer supported on a developer carrier so that the developer carrier can support a uniform and adequate amount of the developer with respect to the lengthwise direction of the developer carrier, and to provide a developing device and an image forming apparatus.

SOLUTION: The developer regulating member 73 which is disposed in such a way that it faces a surface of a developing sleeve 65 for supporting and transporting a developer and regulates the developer on the developing sleeve is formed by press-bending a metal plate member two or more times, and the member 73 is disposed in such a way that the ridge 73a of a press-bent part faces the surface of the developing sleeve.

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