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Patent No.:

US 10175611 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2018

Toner conveyance device and image forming apparatus including the same

Applicant:

Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;

Inventor:

Shinji Nemoto, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC., Osaka, JP;

Attorney:

Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Mark A Deuble

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 33/22 (2006.01); B65G 33/30 (2006.01); B65G 33/32 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/16 (2006.01); G03G 21/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/0891 (2013.01); B65G 33/22 (2013.01); B65G 33/30 (2013.01); B65G 33/32 (2013.01); G03G 15/161 (2013.01); G03G 21/105 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0802 (2013.01); G03G 2221/0005 (2013.01);
Abstract

A toner conveyance device includes a conveying screw having a shaft and a spiral blade. The spiral blade includes a start end-side blade adjacent to a bearing positioned at a start end part side in a toner conveyance path, a terminal-side blade adjacent to a bearing positioned at a terminal part side, and an intermediate blade. A toner discharge port is provided between the intermediate blade and the terminal-side blade. A spiral winding direction of the terminal-side blade is opposite to that of the intermediate blade, a spiral winding direction of the start end-side blade is equal to that of the intermediate blade, and a blade diameter of the start end-side blade and a blade diameter of the terminal-side blade are smaller than that of the intermediate blade.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Nemoto, Shinji. (2019). Toner conveyance device and image forming apparatus including the same (U.S. Patent No. 10175611). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10175611

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