Patent ID: 9494892
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. A transporting apparatus, comprising: a first transporting path that is provided in a developer vessel; a first transporting member that is provided in the first transporting path to transport a developer while churning; a second transporting path that is provided in the developer vessel in parallel with the first transporting path to be communicated with the first transporting path via communicating paths that are formed in both end portions in a longitudinal direction of a boundary wall between the first transporting path and the second transporting path; a second transporting member that is provided in the second transporting path to transport a developer while churning in a reverse direction to the first transporting member and supply the developer to a developer bearing member; a third transporting path that has a developer discharge port, and is connected, in the developer vessel, to the second transporting path in an upstream side of a transporting direction of the developer by the second transporting member; a third transporting member that is provided in the third transporting path to transport a developer that overflows to the third transporting path from the second transporting path to the developer discharge port; an annular plate-like first regulation portion that is arranged in an end portion of the second transporting path in a third transporting path side to be projected from an outer peripheral surface of an axis of the second transporting member and extended in a circumferential direction; and an annular plate-like second regulation portion that is arranged opposite to the first regulation portion with a predetermined interval in an end portion of the third transporting path in a second transporting path side, wherein the second regulation portion is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the third transporting path.