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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2003
Moon-bae Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Heung-sup Jeong, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Moon-bae Park, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Heung-sup Jeong, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A waste toner collecting device of an electrophotographic printer is provided. The device includes a housing to temporarily hold waste toner removed from an image holding body, an exhaust guide member including an exhaust hole through which the waste toner is exhausted, an opening and closing unit to open and close the exhaust hole, an inlet guide member having an inlet path to connect the exhaust hole to an inlet of a waste toner collection tank, and an elastic member which elastically supports the inlet guide member so that a gap between the exhaust hole and an inlet side of the inlet path is closely maintained when the exhaust guide member ascends and descends.