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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2012
Applicant:
Yoshiki Ichikawa, Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshiki Ichikawa, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka-Shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/0836 (2013.01); G03G 15/087 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0663 (2013.01);
Abstract
A rotary-type toner supply device includes a toner container and a scraping member. The toner container has a peripheral wall section which is shaped so as to surround a side face of an imaginary column Kalong the side face and has a toner discharge port formed therein, and contains toner in space surrounded by the peripheral wall. The scraping member is contained in the space so as to freely rotate around a central axis S of the imaginary column K, and has first and second curved parts, each of the first and second curved parts extending along a portion of a half cycle or more of a spiral on the side face of the imaginary column K.