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US 2016/0252844 A1Published application
Developer container, developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYosuke Watanabe
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Abstract
A developer container includes a container configured to store developer and capable of discharging the developer from an opening, a sealing member configured to seal the opening, an unsealing member, rotatably supported, configured to open the opening by removing the sealing member from the container, and a sheet member attached to an attachment portion of the unsealing member in a relative position where the sheet member is held between the sealing member and the unsealing member.
Claims18
A developer container comprising:
- a container configured to store developer and capable of discharging the developer from an opening;
- a sealing member configured to seal the opening;
- an unsealing member, rotatably supported, configured to open the opening by removing the sealing member from the container;
- and
- a sheet member attached to an attachment portion of the unsealing member in a position where the sheet member is held between the sealing member and the unsealing member.
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A developer container comprising:
- a container configured to store developer and capable of discharging the developer from an opening;
- a sealing member configured to seal the opening;
- an unsealing member, rotatably supported, configured to open the opening by removing the sealing member from the container;
- and
- a sheet member attached to an attachment portion of the unsealing member,
- wherein the sealing member includes a contact portion that contacts another portion of the developer container when the unsealing member is rotated, and
- wherein, when the sealing member contacts the another portion, the sheet member contacts a portion opposite the contact portion of the sealing member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.