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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2014
Teppei Kikuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Kosugi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuya Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Fujimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Nodera, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinnosuke Koshizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Teppei Kikuchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideki Kosugi, Kanagawa, JP;
Tatsuya Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Fujimori, Kanagawa, JP;
Kentaro Nodera, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinnosuke Koshizuka, Kanagawa, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A toner cartridge includes a toner container to store toner and two rotary agitation members to rotate to agitate toner in the toner container. The toner container has two arc-shaped portions adjacent to each other at an inner bottom wall of the toner container. The two rotary agitation members has edges to rotate along the two arc-shaped portions with rotation phases thereof shifted from each other. The two rotary agitation members are placed with rotation trajectories thereof partially overlapping each other.