US 2023/0143399 A1Published application

Image forming system

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsHiroyuki Munetsugu, Shohei Katsuya

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Abstract

An image forming system includes a toner container and an image forming apparatus, the toner container including a first toner containing portion, a container base portion having a discharge port for discharging toner, and a container shutter that is moved between open and closed positions and includes an engaged portion, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a main body base portion that detachably attaches the toner container and has a receiving port for receiving the toner and, a second toner containing portion, a movable member that is moved between first and second positions and includes an engaging portion that engages with the engaged portion, a regulating member that is moved between a regulation position and a regulation release position, and an urging member that urges the movable member to move from the first position to the second position when the regulating member is located at the regulation release position.

Claims1

Dependent claims

An image forming system comprising:

a toner container;
and
an image forming apparatus,
wherein the toner container includes:
a first toner containing portion containing toner therein;
a container base portion provided with a discharge port through which the toner contained in the first toner containing portion is discharged to an outside of the first toner containing portion;
and
a container shutter configured to be moved between an open position where the discharge port is opened and a closed position where the discharge port is closed with respect to the container base portion,
wherein the image forming apparatus includes:
a main body base portion to which the toner container is detachably attached and provided with a receiving port for receiving the toner discharged from the discharge port of the toner container;
a second toner containing portion for containing the toner received by the receiving port,
wherein the container shutter is configured to be moved from the closed positon to the open position in conjunction with an attachment of the toner container to the main body base portion of the image forming apparatus.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/149,946Filed 4 Jan 2023
Priority: JP 2020-08981422 May 2020
Published: 11 May 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G03G 15/0886
Sealing of developer cartridges: by mechanical means, e.g. shutter, plug
G03G 15/0867
Arrangements for supplying new developer: cylindrical developer cartridges, e.g. toner bottles for the developer replenishing opening
G03G 21/1676
Means for handling parts of the apparatus in the apparatus: for the developer unit
G03G 2215/0692
Toner cartridge or other attachable and detachable container for supplying developer material to replace the used material: using a slidable…

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