Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process cartridge
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Application No.: US17328112Application Date: 2021-05-24
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Publication No.: US11269288B2Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Inventor: Shougo Sato
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JPJP2017-169559 20170904
- Main IPC: G03G21/18
- IPC: G03G21/18 ; G03G21/00 ; G03G21/12 ; G03G21/10 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
A process cartridge includes: a drum cartridge including a photosensitive drum; and a toner cartridge which is mountable on the drum cartridge and stores toner, wherein the drum cartridge includes: a cleaner configured to collect waste toner on the photosensitive drum; a waste toner conveyance tube configured to convey the waste toner collected by the cleaner; and a developing unit which includes a developing roller configured to supply toner to the photosensitive drum and is swingable about a swing axis with respect to the photosensitive drum, and wherein the toner cartridge has a waste toner storing chamber for storing the waste toner conveyed by the waste toner conveyance tube.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210278800A1 Process Cartridge Public/Granted day:2021-09-09
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