US 10,295,956 B2 · Developer supply container

Abstract

A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus, the developer supply container includes an accommodating portion for accommodating a developer; a discharge opening for discharging the developer accommodated in the accommodating portion from the developer supply container; a developer feeding portion for feeding the developer in the accommodating portion toward the discharge opening; a rotatable drive receiving portion for receiving a rotational force; a drive transmitting portion for transmitting the rotational force received by the drive receiving portion to the feeding portion; a portion-to-be-detected for detecting rotation of the drive receiving portion; a contact surface for contacting a rotatable member provided in the developer receiving apparatus; wherein the drive receiving portion, the portion-to-be-detected and the contact are formed integrally.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A developer supply container comprising:

a developer accommodating body configured to contain developer;
a developer discharging body in fluid communication with the developer accommodating body, the developer discharging body having a discharge opening to discharge the developer from the developer discharging body, with the developer accommodating body being rotatable about a rotational axis relative to the developer discharging body;
a gear portion rotatable about the rotational axis integrally with the developer accommodating body;
and
a rotatable portion integrally molded with the gear portion,
wherein the rotatable portion is provided with a circumferential surface extending along an imaginary circle about the rotational axis, the circumferential surface including an arcuate surface portion extending along the imaginary circle and a recessed surface portion recessed from the imaginary circle toward the rotational axis.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/685,412Filed 24 Aug 2017 · division

Priority

JP 2013-04797111 Mar 2013

Published

US 2017/0351212 A17 Dec 2017

Granted

21 May 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G03G 21/1647
For connecting the different parts of the apparatus: mechanical connection means
G03G 15/0865
Arrangements for preparing, mixing, supplying or dispensing developer: arrangements for supplying new developer
G03G 15/0867
Arrangements for supplying new developer: cylindrical developer cartridges, e.g. toner bottles for the developer replenishing opening
G03G 15/087
Cylindrical developer cartridges, e.g. toner bottles for the developer replenishing opening: developer cartridges having a longitudinal rotational…

Family

PCT/JP2013/060407Parent of this continuation · filed 9 Mar 2013

Application14/850,004Parent of this division · filed 10 Sep 2015

Application15/098,528Parent of this division · filed 14 Apr 2016

US 9,348,261 B2Parent of this division · filed 24 May 2016

US 2017/0351212 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Dec 2017

Application14/850,004Parent of this continuation

US 2016/0004185 A1Published application

US 2016/0223981 A1Published application

US 10,295,956 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.

Developer supply container

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Abstract

Claims4