Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Shutter device, toner storage unit and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 快门装置,调色剂存储单元和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13107154Application Date: 2011-05-13
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Publication No.: US08649726B2Publication Date: 2014-02-11
- Inventor: Hideaki Kadowaki
- Applicant: Hideaki Kadowaki
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-110754 20100513
- Main IPC: G03G21/12
- IPC: G03G21/12 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
A shutter device includes a main body and a seal member. The main body is an annular body fitted around an outside of one end of a cylindrical tube which includes a discharge outlet in a part of the circumferential face near the end in the axial direction, and includes a first opening having a same shape as the discharge outlet and a second opening having a first opening end and a second opening end. The seal member has a length equal to a distance from a vicinity of the first opening end on an outer circumferential face of the main body, passing across the first opening, the second opening end and the first opening on an inner circumferential face of the main body in the stated order, to a vicinity of the second opening end.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110280613A1 SHUTTER DEVICE, TONER STORAGE UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-11-17
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