Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Waste toner container and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 废粉容器和结合其的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12923923Application Date: 2010-10-14
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Publication No.: US08428475B2Publication Date: 2013-04-23
- Inventor: Daisuke Tomita , Shinichi Kawahara , Takeshi Shintani , Nobuo Kuwabara , Akio Kosuge
- Applicant: Daisuke Tomita , Shinichi Kawahara , Takeshi Shintani , Nobuo Kuwabara , Akio Kosuge
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2009-238154 20091015
- Main IPC: G03G21/12
- IPC: G03G21/12

Abstract:
A waste toner container that collects waste toner that is not used to form an image in an image forming unit of an image forming apparatus, and includes a waste toner collection opening to receive the waste toner output from the image forming unit, a toner amount detector to detect toner amount in the waste toner container, and a waste toner conveyance member disposed inside the waste toner container to convey the waste toner in the waste toner container. The waste toner conveyance member defines a waste toner conveyance direction exchange point, which is a boundary between two different toner conveyance direction regions in which the waste toner is conveyed in opposite directions, and the waste toner conveyance direction exchange point is disposed closer to the toner amount detector than is the waste toner collection opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110091227A1 Waste toner container and image forming apparatus incorporating same Public/Granted day:2011-04-21
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