- Patent Title: Developing unit having guide that stably supports toner cartridge
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Application No.: US15805719Application Date: 2017-11-07
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Publication No.: US10222723B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Masahiko Hayakawa , Masashi Imai , 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: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2009-156057 20090630
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
A developing device includes a developer cartridge and a developing unit. The developer cartridge, in some instances, may include a shutter. This shutter may have a wall for closing a developer supply hole, and be movable, with respect to a developer cartridge casing, between an open position where the supply hole is opened by the wall and a closed position where the supply hole is closed by the wall. The shutter may further include a protrusion that is movable with respect to the wall of the shutter between a first position and a second position in an axial direction. The protrusion, in the first position, is engageable with a developing unit and, in the second position, would be disengaged from the developing unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180059579A1 Developing Unit Having Guide that Stably Supports Toner Cartridge Public/Granted day:2018-03-01
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