Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer storage container and image forming apparatus including the same
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Application No.: US16019594Application Date: 2018-06-27
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Publication No.: US10268140B2Publication Date: 2019-04-23
- Inventor: Daisuke Eto , Riku Minamoto
- 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
- Agent Gerald E. Hespos; Michael J. Porco; Matthew T. Hespos
- Priority: JP2017-133824 20170707
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/20 ; G03G15/16

Abstract:
A developer storage container includes a container body, a shaft, a moving wall and a pressing member. The container body has an inner peripheral surface defining a tubular internal space extending along a first direction. The shaft is arranged to extend in the first direction in the internal space and rotatably supported. The moving wall is movable in the first direction in the internal space while conveying the developer in the internal space toward a developer discharge port. The pressing member moves integrally with the moving wall by pressing the moving wall when the shaft is rotated in a first rotating direction and relatively moves to an upstream side with respect to the moving wall according to the engagement of a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion when the shaft is rotated in a second rotating direction opposite to the first rotating direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190011856A1 DEVELOPER STORAGE CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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