Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner supply device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂供应装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13552184Application Date: 2012-07-18
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Publication No.: US08781376B2Publication Date: 2014-07-15
- Inventor: Yoshiki Ichikawa
- Applicant: Yoshiki Ichikawa
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-Shi
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-Shi
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Priority: JPP2011-160370 20110721
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A rotary-type toner supply device includes a toner container and a scraping member. The toner container has a peripheral wall section which is shaped so as to surround a side face of an imaginary column K1 along the side face and has a toner discharge port formed therein, and contains toner in space surrounded by the peripheral wall. The scraping member is contained in the space so as to freely rotate around a central axis S of the imaginary column K1, and has first and second curved parts, each of the first and second curved parts extending along a portion of a half cycle or more of a spiral on the side face of the imaginary column K1.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130022374A1 TONER SUPPLY DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-01-24
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