ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,764, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).
"Toner container and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideo Yoshizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kei Saito (Tokyo) and Yuki Oshikawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container (32) includes a rotatable container body (33). The container body includes an opening portion (33c) and a plurality of projections (33a). The opening portion is on a first end, which is opposite a second end, of the container body in a rotation axis direction. The plurality of projections are each protrude inward and have a slope inclined with respect to the rotation ax...