| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly store a great amount of waste toners in a waste toner recovery container with a simple structure by preventing the waste toner from clogging or leaning to one side of the container when the waste toner removed from a surface of an image holding member is stored in the waste toner recovery container via a waste toner recovery port. <P>SOLUTION: When a waste toner to removed from a surface of an image holding member after a toner image is transferred is stored in a waste toner recovery container 30 via a waste toner recovery port 31, a flow speed of air introduced into the waste toner recovery container via an inlet port 32 is lower than a flow speed of air exhausted from the waste toner recovery container via an exhaust port 33. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
