Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Waste toner storing container, and image forming apparatus including waste toner storing container
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Application No.: US15245093Application Date: 2016-08-23
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Publication No.: US09836014B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Naoki Mizutani
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi, Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi, Osaka
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2015-167209 20150826
- Main IPC: G03G21/12
- IPC: G03G21/12 ; G03G21/10

Abstract:
A waste toner storing container includes a container main body, a first conveyance portion, and a second conveyance portion. The container main body includes a plurality of reception ports, and stores the waste toner carried in from the reception ports. The first conveyance portion, by being rotated when an image forming operation is performed, conveys the waste toner toward one side in a rotation axis line direction. The second conveyance portion, by being rotated when the image forming operation is performed, conveys the waste toner toward another side that is opposite to the one side. The second conveyance portion does not have a conveyance force with regard to waste toner stored in a side-end storage portion, the side-end storage portion corresponding to a side-end reception port among the plurality of reception ports that is located closest to the one side in the rotation axis line direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170060074A1 WASTE TONER STORING CONTAINER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING WASTE TONER STORING CONTAINER Public/Granted day:2017-03-02
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