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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 14, 2013
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Taro Mitsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Akihiro Ouchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Koichi Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yusuke Sakai, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirohisa Hoshino, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshiyuki Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A powder container includes a container body for storing powder, the container body having an introduction port from which the powder is introduced; a transport member having one end provided, in a rotatable manner, on a side wall of the container body, at a position below the introduction port, and the other end serving as a free end that is displaced upward as the amount of powder recovered in the container body increases, the transport member transporting the powder from the one end to the other end by being rotated; and guide portions provided on the container body to guide the transport member in directions intersecting a direction in which the other end of the transport member is displaced as the transport member is displaced upward.