Patent ID: 8768221

Claim:
A powder delivery member, comprising: a rotation shaft portion that is disposed rotatably within a powder storage container with powder stored therein; a delivery portion that delivers the powder along the axial direction of the rotation shaft portion; and a powder discharge portion: (i) disposed at an end portion of the delivery portion on a downstream side in a delivery direction of the delivery portion and configured to rotate together with the delivery portion, (ii) disposed at a position corresponding to a powder discharge port of the powder storage container, (iii) configured to store therein the powder delivered thereto from the delivery portion, and (iv) configured to deliver the stored powder to the powder discharge port in response to being rotated with the rotation shaft portion with the powder stored therein, wherein the powder discharge portion comprises a pair of fan-shaped side plates and a curved outer plate, and wherein the curved outer plate is disposed between the pair of fan-shaped side plates at a distance farthest away from a center of the rotation shaft portion in a radial direction.