US 12,282,284 B2
Image forming apparatus having residual toner collecting containers
Takashi Ninomiya, Chiba (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 15, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/606,004.
Application 18/606,004 is a division of application No. 17/848,447, filed on Jun. 24, 2022, granted, now 11,960,233.
Application 17/848,447 is a division of application No. 17/227,427, filed on Apr. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,397,402, issued on Jul. 26, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-073185 (JP), filed on Apr. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0219864 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/16 (2006.01); G03G 21/10 (2006.01); G03G 21/12 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/12 (2013.01) [G03G 15/161 (2013.01); G03G 21/105 (2013.01); G03G 15/1615 (2013.01); G03G 2215/1661 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1624 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming portion including an image bearing member for bearing a toner image and configured to form the toner image;
an intermediary transfer belt onto which the toner image is transferred from said image bearing member;
a first collecting container provided detachably and configured to collect residual toner discharged from said image forming portion;
a second collecting container provided detachably and configured to collect the residual toner discharged from said image forming portion; and
wherein said first collecting container and said second collecting container are provided below a lower surface of said intermediary transfer belt, and are disposed side by side in a widthwise direction perpendicular to a rotational axis direction of said image bearing member; and
wherein at least a part of said first collecting container overlaps with said intermediary transfer belt as viewed in the vertical direction, and at least a part of said second collecting container overlaps with said intermediary transfer belt as viewed in the vertical direction,
wherein a length of each of said first collecting container and said second collecting container in the widthwise direction is longer than the length in a vertical direction, and a length of each of said first collecting container and said second collecting container in the rotational axis direction of said image bearing member is longer than the length in the widthwise direction.