公开(公告)号：US20170351196A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-07

申请号：US15609216

申请日：2017-05-31

Applicant: CANON FINETECH INC.

Inventor： Ikuyo Kuroiwa ,  Yuki Nagahashi ,  Akihito Yokote ,  Hideo Nagura

IPC: G03G15/08

CPC classification number: G03G15/0865 ,  G03G21/105

Abstract: Provided is a remaining toner conveying apparatus including a cleaning blade which recovers a toner remaining on a surface of a photosensitive drum and a conveying screw which conveys the remaining toner so that a conveyance amount per predetermined time in a first conveyance path conveying the remaining toner recovered by the cleaning blade to a discharge portion for discharging the remaining toner is equal to or less than a conveyance amount in a second conveyance path in a downstream side in a conveyance direction where the conveyance path is narrower than the first conveyance path.