Invention Grant
US08649713B2 Toner container, image forming apparatus including same, and connecting structure for connecting toner container and image forming apparatus
有权
调色剂容器,包括其的图像形成装置和用于连接调色剂容器和图像形成装置的连接结构
- Patent Title: Toner container, image forming apparatus including same, and connecting structure for connecting toner container and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂容器,包括其的图像形成装置和用于连接调色剂容器和图像形成装置的连接结构
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Application No.: US12875762Application Date: 2010-09-03
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Publication No.: US08649713B2Publication Date: 2014-02-11
- Inventor: Eisuke Hori , Yuji Suzuki , Hideki Kimura , Kenji Kikuchi , Noriyuki Kimura , Nobuo Takami
- Applicant: Eisuke Hori , Yuji Suzuki , Hideki Kimura , Kenji Kikuchi , Noriyuki Kimura , Nobuo Takami
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-204358 20090904; JP2010-134544 20100611; JP2010-148907 20100630
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, a cap having a toner outlet, and a shutter. The cap includes a primary positioning hole, formed in an upper front surface perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction, to determine an installation position of the cap relative to the image forming apparatus, a secondary positioning hole, formed in a lower front surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction forward the toner outlet, to subsidiary determine the installation position of the cap, and a first restriction member to position the cap in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, projecting vertically upward from an outer circumferential surface of the cap and symmetrical about a virtual perpendicular line passing through a cross-sectional center position of the primary positioning hole perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
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