Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner hopper, developing unit and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 墨粉盒,显影单元和成像设备
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Application No.: US12416286Application Date: 2009-04-01
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Publication No.: US07933539B2Publication Date: 2011-04-26
- Inventor: Hiroshi Kubota , Koichi Mihara , Hisashi Kunihiro
- Applicant: Hiroshi Kubota , Koichi Mihara , Hisashi Kunihiro
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC
- Priority: JP2008-097186 20080403
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner hopper contains toner supplied from a toner container and supplies the toner to a developing device. The toner hopper includes: a container tank for containing the toner; a carrying screw which is disposed in the container tank and is rotated so as to carry the toner in the container tank; and an elastic member having a first section which is fixed to the container tank and a second section which comes into contact with the carrying screw, the first section being farther from the carrying screw than the second section in a direction perpendicular to an axis line of the carrying screw. According to the arrangement, it is possible to stabilize an amount of toner supplied from the toner hopper to the developing device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090252539A1 TONER HOPPER, DEVELOPING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-10-08
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