Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus incorporating same
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Application No.: US14802747Application Date: 2015-07-17
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Publication No.: US09400450B2Publication Date: 2016-07-26
- Inventor: Teppei Kikuchi , Hideki Kosugi , Tatsuya Kubo , Akira Fujimori , Kentaro Nodera , Shinnosuke Koshizuka
- Applicant: Teppei Kikuchi , Hideki Kosugi , Tatsuya Kubo , Akira Fujimori , Kentaro Nodera , Shinnosuke Koshizuka
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P
- Priority: JP2013-092129 20130425; JP2013-264285 20131220
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner cartridge includes a toner container to store toner and two rotary agitation members to rotate to agitate toner in the toner container. The toner container has two arc-shaped portions adjacent to each other at an inner bottom wall of the toner container. The two rotary agitation members has edges to rotate along the two arc-shaped portions with rotation phases thereof shifted from each other. The two rotary agitation members are placed with rotation trajectories thereof partially overlapping each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150323884A1 TONER CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2015-11-12
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