Invention Grant
US08655234B2 Toner supply assembly and image forming apparatus incorporating same
有权
调色剂供给组件和包含其的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Toner supply assembly and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂供给组件和包含其的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13198097Application Date: 2011-08-04
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Publication No.: US08655234B2Publication Date: 2014-02-18
- Inventor: Eisuke Hori , Nobuo Takami , Yuji Suzuki , Noriyuki Kimura , Hideki Kimura , Kenji Kikuchi
- Applicant: Eisuke Hori , Nobuo Takami , Yuji Suzuki , Noriyuki Kimura , Hideki Kimura , Kenji Kikuchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-178512 20100809
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner supply assembly includes a toner container mount and a toner container including a container body, a cap having a toner outlet, and a shutter for the toner outlet, to move horizontally. The cap includes a shutter guide rail, a contact portion, and a pressed rail provided on a lateral side. The shutter includes a shutter body to engage the shutter guide rail and a deformable portion deformable vertically and including a stopper to contact the contact portion of the cap for inhibiting the shutter from opening the toner outlet, and a stopper release projection pressed by a bottom projection on a bottom surface of the toner container mount in conjunction with installation of the toner container. A pressing member provided in a side portion of the toner container mount engages the pressed rail of the cap, inhibiting the cap from moving upward.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120033998A1 TONER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2012-02-09
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