- 专利标题: Developer replenishing device and developer container for use therewith
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申请号: US161317申请日: 1998-09-28
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公开(公告)号: US5918090A公开(公告)日: 1999-06-29
- 发明人: Hideo Ichikawa , Takeshi Saito , Sunao Ikeda , Nobuhiro Makita , Seiji Ozawa , Shigeru Yoshiki , Takaaki Yanagisawa
- 申请人: Hideo Ichikawa , Takeshi Saito , Sunao Ikeda , Nobuhiro Makita , Seiji Ozawa , Shigeru Yoshiki , Takaaki Yanagisawa
- 申请人地址: JPX Tokyo
- 专利权人: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- 当前专利权人: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- 当前专利权人地址: JPX Tokyo
- 优先权: JPX4-361012 19921230
- 主分类号: G03G15/08
- IPC分类号: G03G15/08
摘要:
A developer replenishing device for replenishing a developing device with a developer, and a developer container for use therewith. The developer container, or toner bottle, has a mouth portion at one end thereof which is smaller in diameter than a hollow cylindrical main body. At the end of the bottle provided with the mouth, a shoulder has the inner periphery thereof partly raised to the edge of the mouth portion to form a raised portion for scooping up a toner. In addition, a part of the inner periphery of the circumferential wall of the bottle which is contiguous with the raised portion is also raised toward the axis of the bottle about which the bottle is rotatable, thereby forming another raised portion. When the bottle is mounted to a bottle holder, which is included in the replenishing device, substantially horizontally with the mouth portion oriented sideways, the bottle is rotated to raise the toner from the bottom of the main body to the mouth portion. As a result, the toner is discharged to the outside via the mouth portion smoothly.
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