Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner container and image forming device having a switching member in the structure of a shell
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Application No.: US16159019Application Date: 2018-10-12
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Publication No.: US10534289B2Publication Date: 2020-01-14
- Inventor: Shuan Yang , Naoki Nonoyama , Shigeru Sawano
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP
- Priority: JP2017-202723 20171019
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G21/16 ; G03G21/18

Abstract:
A toner container attachable to and detachable from a main body of an image forming device and including: a first chamber containing toner; a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber through a partition wall and downstream of the first chamber in a toner supply direction; and a switching member in the second chamber that is movable or rotatable and has a shell structure. The partition wall has a first aperture. A bottom wall of the second chamber opposing the partition wall has a second aperture and sits on the main body. The shell has third and fourth apertures. The fourth aperture coincides with the second aperture when the third aperture coincides with the first aperture, and the first aperture is closed by the shell when the third aperture faces an inner wall surface of the second chamber.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190121257A1 TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2019-04-25
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