发明名称 Toner container and image forming apparatus
摘要 The object of the present invention is to provide toner bottles and the like in which the possibility to damage the ring gear, in particular the teeth of the ring gear, is remarkably suppressed at processing the toner bottle such as handling, packaging, and transporting, thus packaging and transporting are principally possible without cushioning materials. Accordingly, provided is a toner bottle comprising a cylindrical bottle having a bottom, a cylindrical aperture for supplying a toner, and a ring gear, wherein a helical concave is formed on the side wall of the cylindrical bottle along the axis of the cylindrical bottle, the cylindrical aperture is disposed at one end of the cylindrical bottle, the cylindrical aperture is concentric with the cylindrical bottle, and the outside diameter of the cylindrical aperture is smaller than the outside diameter of the cylindrical bottle, the ring gear is disposed on the cylindrical aperture, the ring gear is concentric with the cylindrical aperture, and the tip circle diameter of the ring gear is smaller than the outside diameter of the cylindrical bottle.
申请公布号 US7313349(B2) 申请公布日期 2007.12.25
申请号 US20060498768 申请日期 2006.08.04
申请人 RICOH COMPANY, LTD. 发明人 SUZUKI MASATO;KAWAMURA YOSHIHIDE;NAKAYAMA MASAHIRO
分类号 G03G15/08;B29C49/06;B29L22/00;B65D83/06 主分类号 G03G15/08
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