Patent ID: 7957677
Filing Date: 2011-06-07
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A developing device comprising: a cleaning device that recovers a toner that remains on the image carrier; a recovered toner supply port to which a recovered toner is returned; a toner transporting section that transports the toner supplied from the recovered toner supply port, within the developing device; a capturing section including a plurality of capturing members formed on a path along which the toner is transported by the toner transporting section, and capturing a foreign material; a foreign-material removal member that moves along an elongating direction of the plurality of capturing members, and removes the foreign material captured by the plurality of capturing members; a foreign-material accumulating section that collects the foreign material, disposed in front of a direction along which the foreign-material removal member moves and handles the foreign material; and a plurality of projections that engage with and hold the foreign material disposed on an upstream side of the capturing section in a direction along which the foreign-material removal member moves and handles the foreign material.