Support assembly for supporting toner cartridge to be mounted or detached
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPil Seung Oh, Taeil Jung, Byung Woo Kim, Taejin Yoon
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Abstract
An example image forming apparatus includes a main body, a driving motor rotatable in a first direction to provide a driving force to a developing cartridge and rotatable in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a support assembly to, based on the developing cartridge being mounted to the main body, provide the driving force of the driving motor in the first direction to the mounted developing cartridge, and detach the mounted developing cartridge from the main body using the driving force of the driving motor in the second direction.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body;
- a driving motor rotatable in a first direction to provide a driving force to a toner cartridge and rotatable in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
- and
- a support assembly to:
- based on the toner cartridge being mounted to the main body, provide the driving force of the driving motor in the first direction to the mounted toner cartridge, and
- detach the mounted toner cartridge from the main body using the driving force of the driving motor in the second direction.
A support assembly to support a toner cartridge detachably mounted to an inside of a main body of an image forming apparatus, the support assembly comprising:
- a driving motor;
- and
- a support housing,
- wherein the support assembly is to, based on the toner cartridge being mounted to the main body, provide a driving force of the driving motor to the toner cartridge in a first direction, and detach the mounted toner cartridge from the main body using the driving force of the driving motor in a second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.