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Title:
WASTE TONER RECOVERY CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012083603
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a waste toner recovery container capable of wholly and evenly recovering waste toner in a large-capacity container with neither causing malfunction of conveying members nor causing unexpected damage of components, abnormal noise and the like; and to provide an image forming apparatus.

A waste toner recovery container 30 is projectingly provided with a waste toner inflow part 32 in the upper part of a waste toner storage part 31 extending in the depth direction. A first conveying member 41 that conveys the waste toner in the waste toner storage part 31 in the depth direction is actuated in conjunction with the actuation of a second conveying member 51 that conveys the waste toner accumulated inside the waste toner inflow part 32 in the width direction. Furthermore, a specific portion 41c of the first conveying member 41 is adapted to be fractured or elastically deformed when a load of a prescribed value or more is applied to the first conveying member 41.


Inventors:
KARASAWA SHINYA
AMAMIYA MASARU
ITO CHIKASHI
HATORI SATOSHI
OKAMOTO MICHIYA
IWASAKI TAKUMA
HONJO KENJI
Application Number:
JP2010230652A
Publication Date:
April 26, 2012
Filing Date:
October 13, 2010
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Assignee:
RICOH CO LTD
International Classes:
G03G21/10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yuji Kitajima