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US 2022/0011715 A1Published application
Waste toner collecting device for increasing waste toner collecting efficiency
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsHyun-taek OH, Suhyun KIM, Euntae JUNG
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a print engine, a waste toner collecting device, and a waste toner transfer auger. The waste toner collecting device includes a waste toner container, a sensor disposed on one side of the waste toner container, and a rotatable dispersing member which moves waste toner flowing into the waste toner container to another side of the waste toner container.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a print engine;
- a waste toner transfer auger;
- and
- a waste toner collecting device to collect a waste toner generated by the print engine and transferred from the print engine to the waste toner collecting device by the waste toner transfer auger, the waste toner collecting device including:
- a waste toner inlet,
- a waste toner container to store waste toner discharged from the waste toner inlet,
- a sensor disposed on one side of the waste toner container, to detect an amount of waste toner in the waste toner container, and
- a rotatable dispersing member to move waste toner discharged from the waste toner inlet into the waste toner container to another side of the waste toner container, opposite of the one side.
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A waste toner collecting device mountable in an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a waste toner inlet;
- a waste toner container to store waste toner discharged from the waste toner inlet;
- a sensor disposed on one side of the waste toner container, to detect an amount of waste toner in the waste toner container;
- and
- a rotatable dispersing member to move waste toner discharged from the waste toner inlet into the waste toner container to another side of the waste toner container, opposite of the one side.
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