Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner container, image forming apparatus, and shutter unit
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Application No.: US18029670Application Date: 2021-11-04
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Publication No.: US12078941B2Publication Date: 2024-09-03
- Inventor: Takashi Uesugi , Gen Kitamura , Seiji Terazawa
- Applicant: Takashi Uesugi , Gen Kitamura , Seiji Terazawa
- Applicant Address: JP Shizuoka
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: XSENSUS LLP
- Priority: JP 20191163 2020.11.17
- International Application: PCT/IB2021/060193 2021.11.04
- International Announcement: WO2022/106945A 2022.05.27
- Date entered country: 2023-03-31
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner container includes a shutter and a seal. The shutter is pushed by a nozzle of the image forming apparatus in conjunction with a movement of the toner container in an installation direction to the image forming apparatus. The shutter causes the nozzle to insert into the toner container and communicates the nozzle with the toner container via an opening on a circumferential surface of the nozzle. The seal covers a circumferential surface of the shutter in a close state in which the shutter is not pushed by the nozzle and slidingly contacts the circumferential surface of the shutter and the circumferential surface of the nozzle during an opening operation in which the shutter is pushed by the nozzle. A length of the seal in the installation direction is longer than a length of the opening of the nozzle in the installation direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230384713A1 TONER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND SHUTTER UNIT Public/Granted day:2023-11-30
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