公开(公告)号：US10534311B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US15807329

申请日：2017-11-08

申请人： Konica Minolta, Inc.

发明人： Shinji Yanase ,  Satoshi Fujii

IPC分类号： G03G21/10 ,  G03G15/08 ,  G03G21/12 ,  G03G15/10 ,  G03G21/16

摘要： A waste toner container provided for use in an image forming apparatus includes: a body receiving, through an inlet, waste toner discharged from the image forming apparatus, and contains the waste toner; a conveyance member conveying the waste toner, which has been received through the inlet; a waste toner deposition chamber disposed downstream of the inlet in a waste toner conveyance direction such that the waste toner that has been conveyed is increasingly deposited therein, the chamber having a light-transmissive window through which amount of the deposited waste toner is optically monitorable from outside of the body; a conductive member disposed on an inner surface of the body so as to come into contact with the waste toner being conveyed; and a connection unit disposed between the conductive member and an earth member provided in the image forming apparatus to electrically connect between the conductive member and the earth member.

公开(公告)号：US09561919B2

公开(公告)日：2017-02-07

申请号：US14276406

申请日：2014-05-13

申请人： Konica Minolta, Inc.

发明人： Shinji Yanase ,  Takahiko Ushiroji ,  Dong Zhang ,  Yoshitada Ichikawa

IPC分类号： B65H1/08 ,  B65H1/26

CPC分类号： B65H1/266 ,  B65H2405/11171 ,  B65H2405/12 ,  B65H2511/212 ,  B65H2515/10 ,  B65H2601/325 ,  B65H2220/01 ,  B65H2220/08

摘要： In a paper feeding cassette storing stacked sheets, a rotary lever adapted to rotate vertically about a rotation fulcrum is provided with a lift-up portion for lifting up the sheets as placed in contact with a bottom of the sheets stored in the paper feeding cassette. The lift-up portion is vertically turned by the rotary lever.

摘要翻译： 在存储堆叠纸张的供纸盒中，设有适于围绕旋转支点竖直旋转的旋转杆，提供有用于提升纸张的提升部分，其与存放在供纸盒中的纸张的底部接触放置。 提升部分由旋转杆垂直转动。