Patent ID: 8190069
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A visible image forming device comprising: an image carrier; a developing device that is provided to be movable in a direction in which the developing device comes close to and goes away from the image carrier, and that serves to develop a latent image formed on a surface of the image carrier into a visible image, wherein the developing device comprises: a developing device container that transports developer inside the developing device container; a developer carrier that is opposed to the image carrier, and holds developer supplied from the developing device container on a surface of the developer carrier; and an inlet through which developer flows into the developing device container; an urging member that urges the developing device in such a direction that the developing device comes closes to the image carrier; a contact subject portion that is integral with the image carrier; a contact portion that is provided in the developing device, and that contacts the contact subject portion, wherein an interval is kept between the image carrier and the developer carrier at a preset value; and wherein the inlet is connected to an outlet through which developer flows out of a container main body so as to be movable relative to the outlet in the movable direction of the developing device.