Invention Grant
US09535371B2 Toner container, image forming apparatus to which toner container is attached
有权
调色剂容器,附着调色剂容器的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Toner container, image forming apparatus to which toner container is attached
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂容器,附着调色剂容器的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US14616989Application Date: 2015-02-09
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Publication No.: US09535371B2Publication Date: 2017-01-03
- Inventor: Hiroaki Kitagawa , Takashi Morita
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2014-257575 20141219
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner container includes a container main body, a cylindrical portion, an opening/closing member, and a conveyance member. Container main body includes a storing chamber. Opening/closing member is provided in a inner space of cylindrical portion and, operates to open and close a toner discharge outlet of cylindrical portion. Conveyance member includes rotation shaft and blades along rotation shaft and when rotated, allows blades to convey the toner that is present inside storing chamber and the inner space toward toner discharge outlet. The plurality of blades include a first blade and a second blade. First blade is disposed in storing chamber at a position near a boundary between storing chamber and the inner space and is larger in outer diameter than the other blades. Second blade is disposed in the inner space and is larger than first blade in inclination angle with respect to rotation shaft of conveyance member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160179033A1 TONER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS TO WHICH TONER CONTAINER IS ATTACHED Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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