Patent ID: 7155151
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A developing device comprising: a developer carrier for carrying a developer, including wherein the developing device develops a latent image carried in the latent image-carryable region with the developer carried on the developer carrier, and an end of the solid portion, which is on a side of a center of the developer carrier in the longitudinal direction, is located closer to the center of the developer carrier than an edge of the opposing region; wherein the developing device develops the latent image carried in the latent image-carryable region with the developer carried on the developer carrier, in a state that the developer carrier and the image carrier are not in contact with each other, and a deflection amount of the developer carrier at an end portion of the developer carrier in a longitudinal direction thereof is smaller than a deflection amount at a center of the developer carrier in the longitudinal direction.