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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2022
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Yuta Nohara, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A developer storage container includes a storage portion, a communication portion, and a gear portion. The storage portion conveys developer stored therein in a conveying direction along a rotation axis by being rotated around the rotation axis in a specific direction. The communication portion is tubular coaxial to the rotation axis and extending in the conveying direction from a downstream end in the conveying direction, and connects the storage portion to an opening portion facing the conveying direction. The gear portion includes a disc-shaped support portion provided for an outer peripheral part of the communication portion concentrically with the rotation axis, a tooth portion along an edge of a support surface, orthogonal to the rotation axis, of the support portion, and a rib extending on the support surface radially from the tooth portion or the outer peripheral part without reaching the other; and receives rotational driving force supplied from outside.