Patent 7310490 was granted and assigned to Samsung on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A developing unit for an image forming apparatus using a two-property developer that induces a magnetic attraction force based on the slope of a curved line representing the magnetism of each magnetic pole of a magnetic field generating part of a developing roller and determining a developer-regulating position where the changes of the magnetic attraction force are minor based on the magnetic attraction force in order to assure stable transfer of the developer to a photoconductive medium.