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US 11,698,602 B2Granted
Toner cartridge having front cover
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJonghyun Park, Janghyun Son, Hojin Jang
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a main body provided with a mounting portion and an interference member, and a toner cartridge inserted into the mounting portion. The toner cartridge includes a housing containing toner, a coupling portion, a front cover coupled to one end of the housing via the coupling portion, and a switching member to weaken a coupling force of the coupling portion by interfering with the interference member when the toner cartridge is mounted on the mounting portion.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a main body provided with a mounting portion and an interference member;
- and
- a toner cartridge mountable on the mounting portion, the toner cartridge including:
- a housing to contain toner,
- a coupling portion,
- a front cover coupled to one end of the housing via the coupling portion, and
- a switching member to weaken a coupling force of the coupling portion by interfering with the interference member when the toner cartridge is mounted on the mounting portion,
- wherein
- the coupling portion includes a first coupling portion disposed at one of the housing and the front cover, and a second coupling portion provided at the other one of the housing and the front cover and coupled to the first coupling portion, and
- the switching member includes the second coupling portion, and is provided at the other one of the housing and the front cover to elastically switch from a first state in which the first and second coupling portions are coupled to each other to a second state in which the coupling force of the first and second coupling portions is weakened so that the front cover is separable from the housing, by interfering with the interference member when the toner cartridge is mounted on the mounting portion.
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A toner cartridge, comprising:
- a housing to contain toner;
- a front cover coupled to one end of the housing;
- a first coupling portion disposed at one of the housing and the front cover;
- a second coupling portion disposed at the other one of the housing and the front cover and having a shape complementary to a shape of the first coupling portion;
- and
- a switching member including the second coupling portion, and disposed at the other one of the housing and the front cover to elastically switch from a first state in which the first and second coupling portions are coupled to each other to a second state in which a coupling force of the first and second coupling portions is weakened so that the front cover is separable from the housing, when an external force is received by the switching member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.