Invention Grant
US08190078B2 Toner conveyance device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
有权
调色剂输送装置及其结合的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Toner conveyance device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂输送装置及其结合的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12625874Application Date: 2009-11-25
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Publication No.: US08190078B2Publication Date: 2012-05-29
- Inventor: Takaaki Tawada
- Applicant: Takaaki Tawada
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-311388 20081205; JP2009-065802 20090318
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00

Abstract:
In a toner conveyance device, a first agitator contacts a helical outer circumferential surface of a blade of a conveyance member for conveying toner, and swings in coordination with rotation of the conveyance member to agitate the toner. The first agitator includes a body for bending and swinging in a bending direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the conveyance member, and a protrusion for protruding from the body in a protrusion direction opposite the bending direction of the body. The protrusion includes a basal portion adjacent to the body, a convex portion protruding from the basal portion, and a protrusion front edge surface having a distance from the body changing in a toner conveyance direction, and contacts the helical outer circumferential surface of the helical blade of the conveyance member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100143011A1 TONER CONVEYANCE DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2010-06-10
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