Developer storing container and connecting member
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshiaki Sanada, Hisashi Kunihiro, Koichi Mihara
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Abstract
In a developer-storing container of the present invention, an agitation blade used in a toner-storing section and an agitation blade used in a waste-toner-storing section are coupled by a rotor. The rotor is interdigitated to a bearing mounted on a partition wall. The partition wall is made to be a fixed wall so that precision of interdigitation of the agitation blade of the toner-storing section, the rotor, and the agitation blade of the waste-toner-storing section is improved. Consequently, a developer-storing container that is easy to assemble and in which precision of interdigitation is high is realized.
Claims9
A developer-storing container comprising a developer-storing section including a developer agitation member that rotates to agitate developer, and a waste-developer-storing section including a waste-developer agitation member that rotates to agitate waste-developer,
- an axle of the developer agitation member and an axle of the waste-developer agitation member being coupled so as to form one axle;
- and
- the developer-storing section and the waste-developer-storing section being partitioned in such a way as to be adjacent to each other in a direction of the axle,
- wherein:
- the developer-storing section and the waste-developer-storing section are formed by being partitioned by a fixed wall that is fixed to a housing of the developer-storing container in such a way that the developer-storing section and the waste-developer-storing section are adjacent to each other in the direction of the axle;
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- the developer agitation member and the waste-developer agitation member are constructably and deconstructably coupled to each other by a connecting member that is slidably, rotatably and detachably interdigitated to a bearing formed on the fixed wall.
A connecting member for constructing a developer-storing container which comprises:
- a developer-storing section including a developer agitation member that rotates to agitate developer;
- and a waste-developer-storing section including a waste-developer agitation member that rotates to agitate waste-developer,
- an axle of the developer agitation member and an axle of the waste-developer agitation member being coupled so as to form one axle, and
- the developer-storing section and the waste-developer-storing section being formed so as to be adjacent to each other in a direction of the axle,
- wherein:
- the developer-storing section and the waste-developer-storing section are formed by being partitioned by a fixed wall that is fixed to a housing of the developer-storing container in such a way that the developer-storing section and the waste-developer-storing section are adjacent to each other in the direction of the axle;
- and
- the developer agitation member and the waste-developer agitation member are constructably and deconstructably coupled to each other by the connecting member that is slidably, rotatably and detachably interdigitated to a bearing formed on the fixed wall,
- the connecting member comprising an axle that is the same as the axle of the developer agitation member and the axle of the waste-developer agitation member.
A developer-storing container comprising:
- a fixed wall that is fixed to the developer-storing container and partitions a developer-storing section that includes a developer agitation member that rotates to agitate developer, and a waste-developer-storing section that includes a waste-developer agitation member that rotates to agitate waste-developer;
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- a connecting member that is slidably, rotatably, and detachably interdigitated to the bearing formed on the fixed wall,
- the developer agitation member and the waste-developer agitation member being detachably interdigitated to the connecting member, respectively, and
- an axle of the developer agitation member, an axle of the connecting section, and an axle of the waste-developer agitation member forming one axle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.