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Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2022
Applicant:

Gen Kitamura, Shizuoka, JP;

Inventor:

Gen Kitamura, Shizuoka, JP;

Assignee:

RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/0867 (2013.01);
Abstract

A powder container includes a container body to store powder. The container body includes an inner peripheral surface of a spiral shape and rotates around a longitudinal axis to convey the powder by the spiral shape in one direction. The inner peripheral surface has a substantially polygonal shape having rounded corners or a shape in which sides of the substantially polygonal shape are recessed, in cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the longitudinal axis at a predetermined position. The inner peripheral surface has a region in which the cross-sectional shape at a position shifted from the predetermined position by a predetermined amount within one pitch of the spiral shape in the longitudinal direction is a shape obtained by rotating the substantially polygonal shape having the rounded corners or the shape in which the sides of the substantially polygonal shape are recessed, around the longitudinal axis.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Kitamura, Gen. (2023). Powder container and image forming apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 11599041). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11599041

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