Toner cartridge
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
InventorTsutomu SATO
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Abstract
A toner cartridge comprises a toner container which contains toner, a driving member which rotationally drives a conveying member, an agitating member which agitates a toner in the toner container while being rotated, a driven member which rotates in association with the driving member which is for rotationally driving the agitating member, and a rotational body which rotates according to rotation of the driven member, has a plurality of slits in rotational circumference for identifying a type of the toner cartridge, and has 1/K or more of the slits when a ratio of a rotational speed R1 (rad/s) of the driving member and a rotational speed R2 (rad/s) of the driven member is K=R2/R1.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A toner cartridge comprising:
- a container configured to contain toner;
- a lid body provided on the container, a part of the lid body including a protrusion having an oblique surface facing inside of the container;
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- a rib provided in the part above the protrusion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.