Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorKei Wakayama
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a cover and a toner container. The cover opens and closes a side surface of an apparatus main body. The toner container is detachably attached to an inside of the apparatus main body. The cover is turned between a close position and an open position where an angle between the side surface of the apparatus main body and the cover is acute. The toner container includes a replenishment vessel and a recovery vessel, and the replenishment vessel and the recovery vessel are arranged in an upper-and-lower direction. The toner container is turned between an attachment position and a detachment position inclined so as to be along the cover. The toner container arranged in the detachment position is detached along the cover arranged at the close position.
Claims4
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a cover which opens and closes a side surface of an apparatus main body;
- a toner container which is detachably attached to an inside of the apparatus main body;
- a developing device which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier with a toner;
- a cleaning device which removes the toner remaining on the image carrier;
- a replenishment path part which replenishes the toner from a replenishment vessel to the developing device;
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- a recovery path part which recoveries the toner from the cleaning device to the recovery vessel, wherein
- the cover is turned in a reciprocating manner between a close position standing upright along the side surface of the apparatus main body and an open position inclined outside the apparatus main body around a lower portion of the cover such that an angle between the side surface of the apparatus main body and the cover is acute,
- the toner container includes the replenishment vessel in which the toner to be replenished is contained and a recovery vessel in which the toner to be disposed is contained, the replenishment vessel and the recovery vessel being arranged in an upper-and-lower direction,
- the toner container is turned in a reciprocating manner between an attachment position standing upright inside the apparatus main body and a detachment position inclined outside the apparatus main body around a lower portion of the toner container so as to be along the cover, and
- the toner container arranged in the detachment position is detached along the cover arranged at the open position,
- a replenishment port is formed on a lower surface of the replenishment vessel, which is connected to an upper surface of the replenishment path part so as to send the toner to the replenishment path part,
- a recovery port is formed on an upper surface of the recovery vessel, which is connected to a lower surface of the recovery path part so as to receive the toner from the recovery path part,
- the replenishment port is arranged on an inner side of the apparatus main body from a vertical imaginary line extending in an upper-and-lower direction passing a turning shaft of the toner container, and
- the recovery port is arranged on an outer side of the apparatus main body from the vertical imaginary line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.