Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image-forming apparatus provided with detachable waste toner container and sheet-conveying guide
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Application No.: US15466177Application Date: 2017-03-22
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Publication No.: US10281872B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Takashi Shimizu , Shougo Sato
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2016-073468 20160331
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G21/18 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/12 ; G03G21/10

Abstract:
An image-forming apparatus includes an apparatus body and a process cartridge attachable to and detachable from the apparatus body. The apparatus body includes a sheet-feed roller and a body wall. The process cartridge includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; a developing roller; a cleaner; a conveying pipe and a waste-toner container for storing waste toner removed from the photosensitive drum by the cleaner and conveyed by the conveying pipe. The waste-toner container is detachably mountable on the drum frame. The waste-toner container mounted on the drum frame is positioned opposite to the photosensitive drum with respect to the developing roller. The body wall of the apparatus body and a container wall of the waste-toner container constitute a part of a sheet-conveying guide for guiding conveyance of a sheet from the sheet-feed roller toward the photosensitive drum when the process cartridge is attached to the apparatus body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170285566A1 IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH DETACHABLE WASTE TONER CONTAINER AND SHEET-CONVEYING GUIDE Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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