Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Waste-toner collection system and image forming apparatus having the same
- Patent Title (中): 废墨调色剂收集系统及其成像装置
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Application No.: US12429457Application Date: 2009-04-24
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Publication No.: US08090306B2Publication Date: 2012-01-03
- Inventor: Yasuyuki Fukunaga , Mitsuhiro Goda
- Applicant: Yasuyuki Fukunaga , Mitsuhiro Goda
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
- Current Assignee: Kyocera Mita Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agent Gerald E. Hespos; Michael J. Porco
- Priority: JP2008-115356 20080425
- Main IPC: G03G21/16
- IPC: G03G21/16 ; G03G21/18 ; G03G21/00

Abstract:
A waste-toner collection system includes a waste toner container that accumulate waste toner from a transport section. A tray has an upward opening for replacing the waste toner container and can be movable between a retracted position where the tray has been pushed horizontally into the apparatus body from a first side of the apparatus body, and a drawn-out position where the tray has been drawn horizontally out of the apparatus body from the first side, while holding the waste toner container. The waste toner container can be set in a collection position corresponding to the retracted position of the tray for allowing the waste toner container to receive waste toner discharged from the transport section, and a replacement position corresponding to the drawn-out position of the holder tray for allowing replacement to be performed through the container-replacement opening from above the tray.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090269111A1 WASTE-TONER COLLECTION SYSTEM AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2009-10-29
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