Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Toner cartridge
- Patent Title (中): 墨粉盒
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Application No.: US12922789Application Date: 2009-03-16
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Publication No.: US08532522B2Publication Date: 2013-09-10
- Inventor: Yoshihide Kawamura , Masashi Hasegawa
- Applicant: Yoshihide Kawamura , Masashi Hasegawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Priority: JP2008-068234 20080317
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/055562 WO 20090316
- International Announcement: WO2009/116655 WO 20090924
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner cartridge contains a toner container including an opening and configured to contain a toner. An engaging member includes a ring-shaped seal member disposed on a seal member installation surface. The engaging member is engaged with the toner container to cover the opening and rotatably mounted to the toner container while an edge of the opening is frictionally slid on a surface of the seal member. The toner container is configured to convey the toner into the engage member through the opening and discharge the toner therefrom as the toner container is rotated. The seal member includes a non-contact portion at a surface thereof facing the installation surface and being free from any contact with the installation surface so that the engage member includes a space extending from the surface of the seal member where the edge of the opening is frictionally slid to the non-contact portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110038647A1 TONER CARTRIDGE Public/Granted day:2011-02-17
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