Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging cartridge and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 成像盒和成像装置
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Application No.: US12197628Application Date: 2008-08-25
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Publication No.: US08131182B2Publication Date: 2012-03-06
- Inventor: Hiroshi Mizuno , Isamu Kugimiya , Takeshi Hashimoto , Naoto Yoshida , Nozomu Kondo
- Applicant: Hiroshi Mizuno , Isamu Kugimiya , Takeshi Hashimoto , Naoto Yoshida , Nozomu Kondo
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Priority: JP2007-225278 20070831
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
An imaging cartridge has a process unit and a toner box unit formed by integrating a new toner box and a waste toner box. The toner box unit is attachable to and detachable from the process unit. Shutters which open and close a connecting section between the new toner box and a developing device included in the process unit can be opened by manual operation when the toner box unit is attached to the process unit. Shutters and which open and close a connecting section between a cleaning device included in the process unit and the waste toner box are opened when the imaging cartridge is in the process of being moved to a prescribed position in an apparatus body.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090060570A1 IMAGING CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-03-05
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