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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYukino Uoo, Yasuhiro Fukase, Shinichi Nishida, Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Goshi Ozaki
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An attachment is used with an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a main assembly including a photosensitive drum and a main assembly portion-to-be-engaged, and includes a developing unit including a developing container, a developing roller, and a mounting portion. The attachment includes a first engaging portion, and a second engaging portion. The attachment is mountable to the mounting portion in a state in which a toner container is not mounted to the mounting portion. The attachment does not include a toner accommodating portion for accommodating the toner.
An attachment for use with an image forming apparatus which includes a main assembly including a photosensitive drum and a main assembly portion-to-be-engaged, and which includes a developing unit including a developing container, a developing roller carrying toner accommodated in the developing container, and a mounting portion to which a toner container accommodating the toner is mountable and which is constituted so as to communicate with an inside of the developing container and so as to be exposed to an outside of the main assembly, the developing unit being constituted so as to be movable relative to the main assembly, the attachment comprising:
An image forming system comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.