Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner container and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂容器和成像设备
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Application No.: US13347208Application Date: 2012-01-10
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Publication No.: US08824922B2Publication Date: 2014-09-02
- Inventor: Hirokatsu Suzuki , Kazuaki Kamihara , Yosuke Saito
- Applicant: Hirokatsu Suzuki , Kazuaki Kamihara , Yosuke Saito
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2011-002713 20110111
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/12

Abstract:
A toner container removably installed into an image forming apparatus body. The toner container includes a pouch member that contains a new toner therein and can be turned inside out, and a cover member that covers an outside of the pouch member and includes an inlet through which a waste toner flows in, the inlet being formed opposite to a side of the cover member from which the new toner contained in the pouch member is discharged. After the new toner contained in the pouch member is discharged, the pouch member is turned inside out, and the waste toner flows from the inlet into the pouch member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120177406A1 TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-07-12
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