Patent ID: 9405229
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. A developing device comprising: a developer carrying member for carrying and feeding a developer; a first chamber for supplying the developer to said developer carrying member; a second chamber for forming a circulation path of the developer in communication with said first chamber and for delivering the developer between itself and said first chamber; a first feeding member, provided rotatably in said first chamber, for feeding the developer in said first chamber; and a second feeding member, provided rotatably in said second chamber, for feeding the developer in said second chamber, wherein said second feeding member comprises, a first spiral portion including a first spiral feeding blade for feeding the developer in said second chamber in a feeding direction opposite to a feeding direction in said first chamber, a second spiral portion including a second spiral feeding blade for feeding a part of the developer fed by said first spiral portion in a feeding direction opposite to the feeding direction of said first spiral portion, a third spiral portion including a third spiral feeding blade for feeding the developer fed by getting over said second spiral portion in the same feeding direction as the feeding direction of said first spiral portion, and a disk portion provided between said second spiral portion and said third spiral portion, wherein said disk portion includes a projected portion projected from a part of an outer peripheral surface of said disk portion in a radial direction, and wherein when said disk portion is seen in an axial direction of said second feeding member, on the basis of a line connecting a rotation center of said disk portion and an upstream end portion of said third spiral portion with respect to the feeding direction of said third spiral portion, said projected portion is provided within a range from a position deviated by 90 degrees toward a downstream side with respect to a rotational direction of said disk portion to a position deviated by 30 degrees toward an upstream side with respect to the rotational direction of said disk portion.