Duft Bornsen & Fettig LLP
Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge incorporating same
A developing device includes a developer bearer to bear developer, a developer containing compartment disposed lower than the developer bearer, and a conveying screw disposed in the developer containing compartment. The developing device further includes an inclined face extending from an inner wall of the developer containing compartment obliquely upward toward the developer bearer, and the inclined face opposes the conveying screw from above.
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
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Ichiro Shinji Keiichi Hiroshi Shunji
Kadota Tamaki Yoshida Hosokawa Katoh