- Patent Title: Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus including a screw to convey toner in the cartridge, an elastic member to loosen the toner, and a means to discharge toner together with air to the outside of the cartridge
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Application No.: US17821747Application Date: 2022-08-23
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Publication No.: US11841644B2Publication Date: 2023-12-12
- Inventor: Tomofumi Kawamura , Masato Tanabe
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. I.P. Division
- Priority: JP 20093337 2020.05.28
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A cartridge includes a casing including a toner storage chamber storing toner and a toner discharge chamber having an outlet, a conveyance member conveying the toner from the toner storage chamber to the toner discharge chamber, an action member attached to the conveyance member and repeating an action of shifting between an entering state of entering the outlet and a retraction state of retracting from the outlet, and a pump expanding and contracting to be shifted between a first state and a second state in which the internal space is smaller in volume than in the first state, the pump putting air into the toner discharge chamber by being shifted from the first state to the second state, thereby discharging the toner from the toner discharge chamber through the outlet, and the pump taking in air by being shifted from the second state to the first state.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220404739A1 TONER CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-12-22
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