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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 06, 2016
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Seigo Shinozaki, Ebina, JP;
Keisuke Kubo, Ebina, JP;
Hideki Kuge, Ebina, JP;
Makoto Kanno, Ebina, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A developer vessel includes a container that includes a discharge port through which developer is discharged, and a transport portion that rotates to transport the developer toward the discharge port, a first protrusion that protrudes from an outer surface of the container, a second protrusion that protrudes from the outer surface at a position on an opposite side to the first protrusion with a virtual line being interposed between the first and second protrusions, the virtual line passing through a rotational axis of the transport portion and on a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis of the transport portion and being parallel to the discharge port, and an extending portion that is disposed at an outer end of each of the first and second protrusions on the plane and that extends in a direction intersecting with the respective first and second protrusions.