Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner container and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US12682895Application Date: 2009-08-04
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Publication No.: US08369738B2Publication Date: 2013-02-05
- Inventor: Ichiro Kadota , Kunihiro Ohyama , Masayuki Yamane , Takeshi Uchitani , Nobuyuki Taguchi , Satoru Yoshida , Takuya Seshita
- Applicant: Ichiro Kadota , Kunihiro Ohyama , Masayuki Yamane , Takeshi Uchitani , Nobuyuki Taguchi , Satoru Yoshida , Takuya Seshita
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-231266 20080909; JP2008-234344 20080912; JP2008-248371 20080926; JP2008-249424 20080929
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/064082 WO 20090804
- International Announcement: WO2010/029826 WO 20100318
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G15/04

Abstract:
A toner container and an image forming apparatus are disclosed. The toner container includes a guiding member formed at a part surrounding a toner outlet to be protruded from a circumferential surface of the toner container for guiding an opening or closing operation of a shutter member in a circumferential direction of the toner container. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a main body side shutter for opening or closing a toner supplying opening to be connected to the toner outlet. When the shutter member is opened, an end surface of the guiding member pushes the main body side shutter together with the opening operation of the shutter member, and the toner supplying opening is opened and is connected to the toner outlet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100226690A1 TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2010-09-09
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