Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner supplying device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂供给装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12482673Application Date: 2009-06-11
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Publication No.: US08238796B2Publication Date: 2012-08-07
- Inventor: Satoru Yoshida , Kunihiro Ohyama
- Applicant: Satoru Yoshida , Kunihiro Ohyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-161358 20080620
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner supplying device which supplies toners contained in a toner container to a developing device is disclosed. The toner supplying device includes a toner tank which stores the toners discharged from the toner container, a toner carrying section which carries the toners stored in the toner tank, a toner dropping route which causes the toners carried by the toner carrying section to drop into the developing device by toner's own weight, a control unit which controls an amount of the toners to flow into the toner dropping route from the toner carrying section, and a stirring member which stirs the toners staying at a region between the toner tank and the toner carrying section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090317140A1 TONER SUPPLYING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-12-24
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