Waste-toner collection system and image forming apparatus having the same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8090306
APP PUB NO 20090269111A1
SERIAL NO

12429457

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A waste-toner collection system includes a waste toner container that accumulate waste toner from a transport section. A tray has an upward opening for replacing the waste toner container and can be movable between a retracted position where the tray has been pushed horizontally into the apparatus body from a first side of the apparatus body, and a drawn-out position where the tray has been drawn horizontally out of the apparatus body from the first side, while holding the waste toner container. The waste toner container can be set in a collection position corresponding to the retracted position of the tray for allowing the waste toner container to receive waste toner discharged from the transport section, and a replacement position corresponding to the drawn-out position of the holder tray for allowing replacement to be performed through the container-replacement opening from above the tray.

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KYOCERA MITA CORPORATION2-28 1-CHOME TAMATSUKURI CHUO-KU OSAKA 540-8585

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Fukunaga, Yasuyuki Osaka, JP 40 137
Goda, Mitsuhiro Osaka, JP 25 145

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