Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with detachable toner container
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Application No.: US15877193Application Date: 2018-01-22
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Publication No.: US10241439B2Publication Date: 2019-03-26
- Inventor: Atsuhiro Wakimoto , Hiroki Morishita
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi, Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi, Osaka
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2017-011040 20170125
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
A lever member is displaceably provided to a toner container. A container locking mechanism locks the toner container at a mounting position in a container mounting portion when the lever member is operated from a first operation position to a second operation position in a state where the toner container is located at the mounting position. A locking member is displaceable between a lever locking position and a lever releasing position. A locking control portion controls a drive portion to displace the locking member to the lever locking position when a remaining amount of the toner detected by the remaining amount detection portion is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, and controls the drive portion to displace the locking member to the lever releasing position when the remaining amount of the toner detected by the remaining amount detection portion is less than the predetermined amount.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180210370A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-07-26
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