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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
May. 11, 2023
Osamu Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomonori Tamura, Kanagawa, JP;
Osamu Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomonori Tamura, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A powder collection container includes a container body, a conveying screw, a shaft portion, and a screw portion. The container body has a collection port from which powder is to flows into the container body. The conveying screw includes a shaft portion and a screw portion. The shaft portion extends in an axial direction of the conveying screw. The screw portion is wound around the shaft portion. The conveying screw rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder, which has flowed into the container body, toward an end of the conveying screw in the axial direction. The conveying screw includes a non-screw portion around which no screw portion is wound at least one position of the shaft portion between the collection port and the end of the conveying screw in the axial direction.