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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2016
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yuzo Ichikawa, Yokohama, JP;
Takeo Fukai, Yokohama, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a powder transporting device including: a powder transport path through which a powder loading port, from which powder is loaded in the path, communicates with a powder unloading port disposed with being shifted in a horizontal direction from a position perpendicularly below the powder loading port, and which has a lateral direction transport path and a longitudinal-direction transport path, is disposed to be bent with respect to the lateral direction transport path; a powder transport member that includes a lateral direction transport member, which is movable along the lateral direction transport path, and a longitudinal-direction transport member and that transports powder along the lateral direction transport path and the longitudinal-direction transport path; a drive input portion that leaves a rotational track; and a regulation member that regulates the behavior of the powder transport member.