Patent ID: 8586276

Claim:
A carrier for developing an electrostatic latent image, comprising carrier particles including magnetic particles and a coating layer coating the surfaces of the magnetic particles, the BET specific surface area of the magnetic particles being 0.1400 m 2 /g to 0.2200 m 2 /g; and the difference in BET specific surface areas obtained by subtracting the BET specific surface area of the magnetic particles from the BET specific surface area of the carrier particles is 0.0500 m 2 /g to 0.1300 m 2 /g, wherein the magnetic particles satisfy Expression (1), and the coating layer includes a copolymer of a monomer having an alicyclic group and a nitrogen-containing acrylic monomer: 3.5 ≦A/a≦ 7.0 Expression (1) wherein A represents the BET specific surface area (unit: m 2 /g) of the magnetic particles, and a represents the sphere-equivalent specific surface area (unit: m 2 /g) of the magnetic particles.