Author: claimsbot

1. A toner conveying unit comprising:
a first toner conveying passage that includes a receiving port in an inner wall of the first toner conveying passage and that guides toner to fall down from the receiving port;
a second toner conveying passage that joins a lower portion of the first toner conveying passage through a toner collecting port;
a conveying member that is provided in the second toner conveying passage and that conveys the toner in a predetermined direction while rotating;
a crank that is provided in the second toner conveying passage below the first toner conveying passage and that is connected to the conveying member; and
a vertical slide member that includes:
a crank connecting unit that is connected to the crank, and
a spiral body that is inserted into the first toner conveying passage, and that is formed so as to come into slide contact with the inner wall of the first toner conveying passage,
wherein a length of the spiral body is smaller than a distance between the receiving port and the toner collecting port.
2. The toner conveying unit according to claim 1, further comprising a driving source that is connected to the conveying member,
wherein the conveying member is rotated by a driving force that is obtained from the driving source,
wherein the crank and the vertical slide member reciprocate in a vertical direction, and
wherein the vertical slide member slides on an inner wall surface of the first toner conveying passage so as to scrape off the toner.
3. The toner conveying unit according to claim 2, wherein the driving source includes a rotational drive gear.
4. The toner conveying unit according to claim 1, wherein the conveying member includes any one of a shape of a coil and a rotating shaft with spiral fins fixed to an outer peripheral surface of the rotating shaft.
5. The toner conveying unit according to claim 1, comprising a plurality of first toner conveying passages,
wherein the plurality of first toner conveying passages include vertical drum-toner conveying passages that are disposed so as to correspond to drum cleaners for a plurality of photoreceptor drums, respectively and that guide toner discharged from the drum cleaners to the second toner conveying passage, and a vertical belt-toner conveying passage that guides toner discharged from a belt cleaner for a transfer belt to the second toner conveying passage.
6. The toner conveying unit according to claim 5, wherein the photoreceptor drums are provided in a cyan image forming unit, a magenta image forming unit, a yellow image forming unit, and a black image forming unit, respectively.
7. The toner conveying unit according to claim 1,
wherein the conveying member, which includes a rotating shaft around which spiral fins are fixed, and a plurality of the cranks are alternately connected to each other,
wherein the crank includes a shaft that is not formed on an extended line of the rotating shaft of the conveying member and that is positioned parallel to the rotating shaft, and
wherein the crank includes a handle that connects the shaft to the rotating shaft.
8. The toner conveying unit according to claim 1, further comprising: a toner storage container that collects the toner conveyed through the second toner conveying passage in the predetermined direction.
9. The toner conveying unit according to claim 8, wherein the toner storage container is detachably provided.
10. The toner conveying unit according to claim 8, wherein toner, which passes through the first toner conveying passage and the second toner conveying passage, is waste toner, and toner stored in the toner storage container is waste toner.
11. The toner conveying unit according to claim 1, wherein the length of the spiral body is smaller than the distance between the receiving port and the toner collecting port, by a distance which is substantially equal to a vertical stroke of the crank.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A refrigerant composition which comprises at least one polyoxyalkylene glycol derivative represented by the general formula:
R1(OR2)mOR3n
wherein R1 is a methyl group, R2 is a propylene group, R3 is a methyl group, n is an integer of 1 and m is an integer of 12 to 80 and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane; said derivative having a kinematic viscosity of 5 to 50 cSt at 100 C.
2. A refrigerant composition comprising a polyoxyalkylene glycol derivative of ethyleneoxide-propyleneoxide copolymer represented by the general formula:
R6OAR7
wherein R6 and R7 are each an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms and A is a copolymerization chain of ethyleneoxide and propyleneoxide consisting of p-times ethyleneoxide units and q-times propyleneoxide units, and p and q are numbers satisfying the requirements:
0.1pq3, 14pq100
and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane; said derivative having a kinematic viscosity of 5 to 50 cSt at 100 C.
3. A refrigerant composition according to claim 2, wherein R6 and R7 are each a methyl group.

1. A sensing assembly for sensing parameters of a bearing mechanism including a circular bearing housing, said sensing assembly comprising:
a sensor case fixedly secured to the bearing mechanism, said sensor case including a peripheral surface and a top plate with extensions protruding outwardly therefrom, said top plate defining an outward surface and an inward surface;
a sensor housing having an upper housing surface abuttable with a portion of said inward surface of said sensor case removably insertable into said sensor case, said sensor housing selectively engaging said extensions of said sensor case to secure said sensor housing in said sensor case at a location spaced from the bearing mechanism;
a sensor disposed within said sensor housing to sense the parameters of the bearing mechanism;
a housing window in the peripheral surface of said sensor case to allow said sensor and said sensor housing to be removed from the bearing mechanism and replaced without replacing the bearing mechanism; and
guide plates extending inwardly from said peripheral surface to guide said sensor housing as said sensor housing moves into and out of said sensor case.
2. A sensing assembly for sensing parameters of a bearing mechanism including a circular bearing housing, said sensing assembly comprising:
a sensor case fixedly secured to the bearing mechanism, said sensor case including a peripheral surface and a top plate with notches protruding outwardly therefrom, and guide plates with notches extending inwardly from said peripheral surface;
a sensor housing removably insertable into said sensor case, said sensor housing including receptors for selectively engaging said notches of said sensor case to secure said sensor housing in said sensor case at a location spaced from the bearing mechanism, said receptors including a plurality of latches engagable with said notches of said sensor case to lock said sensor housing to said sensor case; and
a sensor disposed within said sensor housing to sense the parameters of the bearing mechanism wherein said sensor and said sensor housing may be removed from the bearing mechanism and replaced without replacing the bearing mechanism.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

1. A cut design of diamond comprising:
a girdle of a round or polygonal shape having an upper horizontal section surrounded by an upper periphery and, a lower horizontal section surrounded by a lower periphery and being parallel to the upper horizontal section;
a crown of a substantially polygonal frustum formed above the upper horizontal section of the girdle and upward from the girdle, said crown having a table facet of a regular octagon which forms a top surface of the polygonal frustum; and
a pavilion of a substantially polygonal pyramid formed below the lower horizontal section of the girdle and downward from the girdle and having a bottom apex,
wherein, according to the following definition: a Z-axis is defined along a straight line extending from the bottom apex of the polygonal pyramid pavilion through a center of the table facet; first planes are defined as planes including the Z-axis and passing eight respective vertexes of the table facet; an X-axis is defined along a straight line passing a point where a first plane intersects with the girdle lower periphery, and being perpendicular to the Z-axis; a Y-axis is defined along a straight line passing a point where a first plane perpendicular to the Z-axis and the X-axis intersects with the girdle lower periphery, and being perpendicular to the Z-axis and the X-axis; and second planes are defined as planes each of which includes the Z-axis and bisects an angle between two adjacent first planes,
the crown has eight bezel facets, eight star facets, and sixteen upper girdle facets, as well as the table facet, each bezel facet is a quadrilateral plane whose opposite vertexes are a vertex of the table facet and a point where a first plane passing said vertex intersects with the girdle upper periphery, said quadrilateral plane has the other two opposite vertexes on respective adjacent second planes and shares a vertex out of the other two opposite vertexes with an adjacent bezel facet, each star facet is an isosceles triangle composed of the base of a side of the table facet and the vertex shared by two adjacent bezel facets whose vertexes are at the two ends of the base, and each upper girdle facet is a triangle composed of one side intersecting at one end with the girdle upper periphery, out of the sides of each bezel facet, and a point where a second plane passing the other end of said side intersects with the girdle upper periphery,
wherein the pavilion comprises a first pavilion and a second pavilion separated by a horizontal division plane parallel to the lower horizontal section of the girdle, the first pavilion has eight first pavilion main facets and sixteen first lower girdle facets, each first pavilion main facet is an isosceles triangle having the vertex at a point where a first plane intersects with the girdle lower periphery and having the base perpendicular to said first plane, on the horizontal division plane, each first lower girdle facet is a quadrilateral plane surrounded by a portion of the girdle lower periphery between a first plane and a second plane adjacent to each other, an oblique side of the isosceles triangle of the first pavilion main facet having the vertex on said first plane, a side on the second plane passing an end point on the second plane of said portion of the girdle lower periphery, and a side on the horizontal division plane passing a bottom vertex of the isosceles triangle, the second pavilion has eight second pavilion main facets and sixteen second lower girdle facets, each second pavilion main facet is a pentagonal plane having a vertex at the bottom apex of the pavilion and the base which is common to the base of the isosceles triangle of a first pavilion main facet, and being symmetric with respect to a first plane, said pentagonal plane has the other vertexes on respective adjacent second planes and shares one side and two vertexes with a second pavilion main facet adjacent thereto, and each second lower girdle facet is a triangle sharing a vertex of a second pavilion main facet present on a second plane, an end of the base of the second pavilion main facet, and a side of the second pavilion main facet having said vertex and end as ends thereof, with said second main facet, and composed of said side and a side of a first lower girdle facet on the horizontal division plane, and shares a side on the second plane with an adjacent second lower girdle facet,
wherein a first pavilion angle (p1) between the first pavilion main facet and the lower horizontal section of the girdle is from 40\xb0 to 47\xb0, wherein in a graph with the first pavilion angle (p1) on the horizontal axis and a crown angle (c) between the bezel facet and the lower horizontal section of the girdle on the vertical axis, the crown angle (c) falls within a region between a straight line connecting two points where (p1, c) is (40, 27.8) and (47, 8.9) and a straight line connecting two points where (p1, c) is (40, 32.8) and (47, 15.0),
wherein in a graph with the first pavilion angle (p1) on the horizontal axis and a second pavilion angle (p2) between the second pavilion main facet and the lower horizontal section of the girdle on the vertical axis, the second pavilion angle (p2) falls within a region between two straight lines, one connecting two points where (p1, p2) is (40, 36.7) and (44, 37.0) and the other connecting two points where (p1, p2) is (44, 37.0) and (47, 38.1), and a straight line connecting two points where (p1, p2) is (40, 38.7) and (47, 41.3), and
wherein when an X-axis coordinate of a point where the girdle lower periphery intersects with the X-axis is 2.0, an X-axis coordinate (del) of a vertex of the regular octagon of the table facet present on the X-axis is from 0.9 to 1.2.