Abstract: A developing apparatus includes a developer bearing member, a developer container, and a storage tank arranged within the developer container to store liquid developer to be supplied to the developer bearing member. The storage tank includes a first bottom surface including an inclined portion that is inclined downward with respect to a horizontal direction in a rotational axis direction of the developer bearing member, and a discharge port arranged on a lower end of the inclined portion of the first bottom surface. The developer container includes a second bottom surface including an inclined portion that is inclined downward with respect to the horizontal direction toward an opposite direction as the inclined portion of the first bottom surface in the rotational axis direction of the developer bearing member, and a discharge port arranged on a lower end of the inclined portion of the second bottom surface.

Abstract: A developer filtering apparatus of a printer, which filters developer supplied from a developing unit to a circulation tank through an discharge path, includes a coupling member having a hole formed therein and coupled to a coupling hole formed in the circulation tank to be capable of being detached, a receiving member extending to the inside of the circulation tank by penetrating the hole and for receiving developer discharged through the discharge path, and a filter net installed at one end of the coupling member wrapped around the receiving member for filtering developer passing through the receiving member.

Abstract: An apparatus for developing an electrostatic latent image on an imaging member with a liquid developing material, including a liquid developing material applicator, the housing defining an aperture adapted for transporting liquid developing material into contact with the imaging member, the housing further including a planar surface adjacent the aperture for providing a liquid developing material application region in which the liquid developing material can flow freely with the imaging member; a developing roll situated adjacent the liquid developing material applicator and downstream therefrom relative to a path of travel of the imaging member; and a cleaning system, operatively coupled to the liquid developing material applicator, for cleaning residue liquid developer material from the liquid developing material applicator and the developing roll.

Abstract: This invention relates to a liquid developer monitoring device comprising a first electrode which contacts with a liquid developer comprising a liquid medium and electrically charged toner particles dispersed therein, a second electrode being either a developing roller or a separate roller which provides a fresh surface and immerses said surface in the liquid developer, an electric power source which applies a bias voltage between said first and second electrodes so as to deposit the toner particles on the second electrode, and a sensor which measures magnitude of current flowing between said first and second electrodes during the deposition of the toner particles. A cleaning device removes the deposited toner on the second electrode. The sensor includes an electric coil, a magnet inserted in the coil and a Hall element.

Abstract: An electrostatic latent image developing method and an apparatus used in the latent image developing method are disclosed. In a first image developing method, a bias supply voltage provided to a developing dish is gradually increased during a developing process so as to prevent a decrease in an effective bias voltage applied to the developing dish caused by the attachment of the toner to the developing dish. Further, in a second developing method, the electrostatic latent image is formed on a photosensitive member by scanning a laser beam on a preliminarily charged photosensitive member in a lateral scanning direction, the thus formed latent image is developed by absorbing a toner in a liquid developer in a developing dish, wherein a cleaning pattern image having a large toner absorbability for absorbing the toner attached to a surface of the developing dish is provided on the photosensitive member by the laser beam before and/or after the latent image is formed on the photosensitive member.