Packaging Unit
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShougo SATO
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Abstract
A packaging unit includes an image forming apparatus and a packaging member. A cartridge is detachably mounted in the image forming apparatus. The cartridge accommodates developer therein. The image forming apparatus is configured to form an image using the developer. The cartridge is formed with a first opening for allowing the developer to discharge outside from the cartridge when the cartridge is in a first posture. The cartridge is in the first posture when the image is formed. The packaging member package the image forming apparatus therein in such a posture that the cartridge is in a second posture where leakage of the developer from the first opening is unlikely to occur as compared with a posture of the image forming apparatus in which the cartridge is in the first posture.
Claims18
A packaging unit comprising:
- an image forming apparatus into which a cartridge accommodating developer therein is detachably mounted, the image forming apparatus being configured to form an image using the developer, the cartridge being formed with a first opening for allowing the developer to discharge outside from the cartridge when the cartridge is in a first posture, the cartridge being in the first posture when the image is formed;
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- a packaging member in which the image forming apparatus is packaged in such a posture that the cartridge is in a second posture where leakage of the developer from the first opening is unlikely to occur as compared with a posture of the image forming apparatus in which the cartridge is in the first posture.
A method comprising:
- mounting a cartridge into an image forming apparatus, the cartridge accommodating developer therein, the image forming apparatus being configured to form an image using the developer, the cartridge being formed with a first opening for allowing the developer to discharge outside from the cartridge when the cartridge is in a first posture, the cartridge being in the first posture when the image is formed;
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- packaging the image forming apparatus in a packaging member in such a posture that the cartridge is in a second posture where leakage of the developer from the first opening is unlikely to occur as compared with a posture of the image forming apparatus in which the cartridge is in the first posture.
A packaging unit comprising:
- an image forming apparatus into which a cartridge accommodating developer therein is detachably mounted, the image forming apparatus being configured to form an image using the developer, the cartridge being formed with an opening and having an edge defining the opening, the opening allowing the developer to discharge outside from the cartridge when at least part of the edge is positioned at a position lower than a level of the developer accommodated in the cartridge;
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- a packaging member in which the image forming apparatus is packaged in such a posture that the entire edge is positioned at a position higher than the level of the developer accommodated in the cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.