Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus including pivotable process cartridge
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置包括可枢转处理盒
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Application No.: US14663065Application Date: 2015-03-19
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Publication No.: US09280132B2Publication Date: 2016-03-08
- Inventor: Hideshi Nishiyama , Shougo Sato
- Applicant: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Merchant & Goulc P.C.
- Priority: JP2014-074507 20140331
- Main IPC: G03G21/16
- IPC: G03G21/16 ; G03G21/18 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G21/12

Abstract:
There is provided an image forming apparatus including a main body and a process cartridge including a photosensitive body cartridge and a developing cartridge. The photosensitive body cartridge includes a photosensitive body and a waste developing agent storage container. The developing cartridge includes a developing agent carrier. The photosensitive body cartridge is configured to receive the developing cartridge such that the developing cartridge is attached to and detached from the photosensitive body cartridge through a particular space defined in the main body. The process cartridge is configured to pivot, with respect to the main body, between a first position, in which the waste developing agent storage container is positioned outside the particular space entirely, and a second position, in which the waste developing agent storage container at least partially occupies the particular space.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150277368A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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