| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner supply means in which an accuracy in an amount of toner to be supplied is greatly increased by making the weight of toner per volume in a sub-toner container and in toner conveying pipe uniform as much as possible without extremely making a mechanism complex and without adding a highly accurate/highly sensitive/highly expensive sensor. <P>SOLUTION: The sub-toner-container of the toner supply means is characterized in that toner vertically falling from a toner supply port does not directly reach a toner conveying screw but reaches the toner conveying pipe via an inclined face having an angle that is not less than 30° but not more than 50° relative to the vertical direction of the internal wall face of the sub-toner-container formed vertically below the toner supply port. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
