Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer supplying cartridge, developer receiving cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 显影剂供应盒,显影剂接收盒,处理盒和成像设备
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Application No.: US12468200Application Date: 2009-05-19
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Publication No.: US07729643B2Publication Date: 2010-06-01
- Inventor: Takashi Yahagi
- Applicant: Takashi Yahagi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP11-337265 19991129; JP2000-350621 20001117
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developer supply cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, includes: a developer accommodator accommodating a developer; a discharging opening discharging the developer accommodated in the accommodator to a developer receiving opening of a developer receiving cartridge developing an electrostatic image formed on an image bearing member with the developer, and being detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus; a shutter movable between an opening position opening the discharging opening and a closing position closing the discharging opening; an engager engaging the developer receiving cartridge to receive, from the developer receiving cartridge, a force for moving the shutter from the closing to the opening position, in interrelation with a relative movement between the developer supply cartridge and the developer receiving cartridge toward each other in a mounting-and-demounting direction of the developer supply cartridge relative to the image forming apparatus.
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