Patent ID: 7076193

Claim:
An apparatus for developing in a development zone a latent image recorded on a surface, including: a housing defining a chamber storing at least a supply of toner therein; a donor member disposed of at least partially in the chamber of said housing and spaced from the surface, said donor member being adapted to rotate about a longitudinal axis to transport toner to the development zone in a region opposed from the surface; and a wire assembly module mounted the development zone and extending in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis, said wire assembly module including a wire and a drive system for translating portions of the wire in the development zone, and means for electrically biasing said wire to detach toner from said donor member so as to form a toner powder cloud in the development zone with detached toner from the toner cloud developing the latent image, said wire assembly module further includes a stringing system for arranging said wire into plurality of elongated wires with adjacent wires being spaced from and substantially parallel to one another and wherein said plurality of wires contact said donor member.