Invention Grant
US08121525B2 Method and toner bottle for image forming apparatus capable of effectively supplying toner to image forming apparatus
有权
用于图像形成装置的方法和调色剂瓶,其能够有效地向图像形成装置供应调色剂
- Patent Title: Method and toner bottle for image forming apparatus capable of effectively supplying toner to image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 用于图像形成装置的方法和调色剂瓶,其能够有效地向图像形成装置供应调色剂
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Application No.: US12816018Application Date: 2010-06-15
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Publication No.: US08121525B2Publication Date: 2012-02-21
- Inventor: Nobuyuki Taguchi , Misaki Uchiyama , Masahiro Kurita , Goro Katsuyama
- Applicant: Nobuyuki Taguchi , Misaki Uchiyama , Masahiro Kurita , Goro Katsuyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2004-236249 20040816; JP2004-252324 20040831
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
The toner bottle exchangeably used in an image forming apparatus. The toner bottle includes a bottle body having a substantially cylindrical shape and configured to contain toner, a gear configured to rotate a part of the toner bottle, a cap attached to the bottle body and including an opening arranged in a circumferential surface of the cap and configured to output toner to a development apparatus of the image forming apparatus, a toner conveyance mechanism arranged in the bottle body and configured to convey the toner to the opening.
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