Developer supply container and developer supplying system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYusuke Yamada
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Abstract
A developer supply container (1) detachably mountable to a hollow portion of a rotatable photosensitive member (100) provided in a electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the container including a rotatable container body having an inner space for containing a developer; a feeding portion (5) for feeding the developer in the container body with a rotation of the container body to discharge the developer out of the container body; and a engageable portion (3a) which is engageable with the photosensitive member so that container body is rotated integrally with the photosensitive member by a rotational driving force received from a driving member (104) provided in the electrophotographic image forming apparatus.
Claims11
A developer supply container detachably mountable to a hollow portion of a rotatable photosensitive member provided in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, said container comprising:
- a rotatable container body having an inner space for containing a developer;
- a feeding portion for feeding the developer in said container body with a rotation of said container body to discharge the developer out of said container body;
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- a engageable portion which is engageable with the photosensitive member so that container body is rotated integrally with said photosensitive member by a rotational driving force received from a driving member provided in the electrophotographic image forming apparatus.
A developer supply container detachably mountable to a hollow portion of a rotatable photosensitive member provided in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, said container comprising:
- a driving force receiving portion for receiving a rotational driving force for discharging a developer out of said container from a driving member provided in the electrophotographic image forming apparatus;
- a driving force transmitting portion for transmitting the rotational driving force received by said driving force receiving portion to the photosensitive.
A developer supply system of an electrophotographic multicolor image forming apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of photosensitive members each having a hollow portion;
- a plurality of developing devices for developing electrostatic images formed on the photosensitive members with different color developers, respectively;
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- a plurality of developer supply containers, detachably provided in said hollow portions of said photosensitive members, respectively, for supplying the developers to said developing devices, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.