Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner supply container and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂供应容器和成像设备
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Application No.: US12793804Application Date: 2010-06-04
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Publication No.: US08340555B2Publication Date: 2012-12-25
- Inventor: Shinya Naoi , Hiroshi Tanimoto , Yasuaki Tomoda
- Applicant: Shinya Naoi , Hiroshi Tanimoto , Yasuaki Tomoda
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2009-137462 20090608
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner supply container has a container body and a conveyance member rotatably arranged inside the container body and which conveys toner toward a discharge opening of the container body when driven to rotate by external force. The conveyance member includes a cylindrical rotary body and a screw blade member wound around the cylindrical rotary body so that the screw blade member stands on an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical rotary body. The inner surface of a bottom wall of the container body includes a cylindrically curved surface identical to a part of a circumferential surface of an imaginary cylinder whose axis is substantially the same as a rotation axis of the conveyance member. A curvature radius of the cylindrically curved surface is set so the conveyance member rotates in a state where an outer circumferential edge of the screw blade member substantially slides on the cylindrically curved surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100310278A1 TONER SUPPLY CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-12-09
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