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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1994
Filed:
May. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Satoru Yoshioka, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
355298 ; 141363 ; 141375 ; 1985501 ;
Abstract
A waste toner collecting device incorporated in electrophotographic equipment of the type electrostatically forming a latent image on a photoconductive element, developing the latent image by a toner, and transferring the resulted toner image to a recording medium. The device collects a waste toner having been removed from the photoconductive element after the image transfer in a storing section thereof. An auger for conveying the waste toner to the storing section is operatively connected to a drive shaft by a mechanism which is disposed in the storing section and constituted by pin gears each having a number of uniquely configured pins.