US 2021/0240127 A1 · STRUCTURE FOR PROTRUDING HANDLE TO RELEASE DEVELOPER CARTRIDGE

Abstract

A printer includes a main body including a printing unit for printing an image, a developer cartridge for accommodating a developer to be supplied to the printing unit and removable from the main body, a releasing member provided in the main body and pushing the developer cartridge in a removal direction to move the developer cartridge from a mounting position where the developer cartridge is locked to the main body to a removal position where the developer cartridge is unlocked, and a handle provided on the developer cartridge. The handle moves in conjunction with the movement of the developer cartridge from the mounting position to the removal position of the developer cartridge such that the handle is switched from a first position adjacent to a side of the developer cartridge to a second position protruding from the side of the developer cartridge, so that the handle can be gripped.

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Dependent claims

A printer, comprising:

a main body including a printing unit to print an image on a printing medium and including an interior space to accommodate a removable developer cartridge that includes a developer to be supplied to the printing unit;
a releasing member, provided in a rear portion of the interior space of the main body, that when the developer cartridge is installed in the main body and is to be removed from the main body, is to rotate so as to move the developer cartridge in a removal direction to remove the developer cartridge from the main body;
and
a latching portion, provided in a front portion of the interior space of the main body, that when the developer cartridge is installed in the main body is latched to a portion of the developer cartridge so that a handle of the developer cartridge is maintained in a first position, and when the developer cartridge is removed from the main body the latching portion is unlatched from the portion of the developer cartridge so that the handle is concurrently moved to a second position to protrude from the developer cartridge.

1 more element

A developer cartridge which is installable in a printer, the developer cartridge comprising:

a body having a rear side and a front side;
a handle, provided on the front side of the body, movable between a first position at which the handle is adjacent to the front side of the body to a second position at which the handle protrudes from the front side of the body;
and
a rocker arm provided in the developer cartridge to move from a third position, at which the developer cartridge is locked to a main body of the printer when the developer cartridge is installed in the main body, to a fourth position, at which the developer cartridge is unlocked from the main body when the developer cartridge is removed from the main body by a force applied to the rear side of the body in a rear to front direction of the body,
wherein the handle is to move from the first position to the second position when the rocker arm moves from the third position to the fourth position.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Structure for protruding handle to release developer cartridge

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Structure for protruding handle to release developer cartridge

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Abstract

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