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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2012
Applicant:
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Hirohito Konishi, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/105 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0833 (2013.01);
Abstract
A toner recovery device includes a toner recovery container that recovers toner; and a toner conveying shaft member that is provided inside the toner recovery container and conveys toner in a axial direction of the toner conveying shaft member by the rotation around a rotational axis of the toner conveying shaft member and that has a spiral groove formed around the rotational axis and an outer peripheral surface whose distance from the rotational axis is variable.