Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Developer storage container and image forming apparatus using the same
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Application No.: US12121851Application Date: 2008-05-16
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Publication No.: US07792468B2Publication Date: 2010-09-07
- Inventor: Hideo Ichikawa , Hirokazu Murase
- Applicant: Hideo Ichikawa , Hirokazu Murase
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2007-298742 20071118
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A developer storage container includes a container body, an opening formed in the container body, an opening-and-closing cover, a cover holding frame that holds the cover so that the cover is movable between opening and closing positions, a protrusion portion, a blocking portion and a position regulating protrusion. When the opening-and-closing cover moves in the opening-and-closing direction toward the opening position and reaches a certain intermediate position, the blocking portion contacts with the protrusion portion. When the opening-and-closing cover moves from a position where the protrusion portion and the blocking portion are in contact with each other to the closing position, the position regulating protrusion causes the opening-and-closing cover to move in a intersecting direction and regulates a position of the opening-and-closing cover in the intersecting direction so that the blocking portion is overlapped, along the opening-and-closing direction, with the position of the distal end of the protrusion portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090129827A1 DEVELOPER STORAGE CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2009-05-21
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