Developing apparatus with a seal on the back side of a toner layer thickness control member

摘要

It is an object of the present invention to provide a developing apparatus that can protect a developer holder and a layer thickness control member from damages and a developer from scattering in itself, while preventing a surplus supply of the developer to both ends on the peripheral surface of the developer holder. In a developing apparatus (DA2), at the back side of a layer thickness control member (1) is provided a back side elastic sealing member (26) coming in contact with the side edges of a both-end elastic sealing members (2) to seal the developer together with the back side elastic sealing member and the both-end elastic sealing members at both ends. The both-end elastic sealing members (2) seals the developer at both ends of a developer holder (3) of its peripheral surface.