Unlocking cartridge chamber door for cartridge of toner
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJongin KIM, Junhui KIM, Jeonghyun LEE
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Abstract
An example image forming apparatus includes a main body including a cartridge chamber, a toner cartridge movable between a mounting position in which the toner cartridge is mounted in the cartridge chamber and a pop-up position in which the toner cartridge protrudes from the cartridge chamber, and a chamber door to open and close the cartridge chamber, wherein the chamber door is to switch to an open position to open the cartridge chamber in association with a pop-up operation of the toner cartridge.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body including a cartridge chamber to mount a toner cartridge;
- a pop-up member to pop up the toner cartridge from a mounting position to a pop-up position at which the toner cartridge protrudes from the cartridge chamber;
- a chamber door to open and close the cartridge chamber;
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- a locking member to be switched between a locking position to lock the chamber door in a closed position to close the cartridge chamber and an unlocking position to allow the chamber door to be switched to an open position to open the cartridge chamber by interfering with the toner cartridge in the pop-up position.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body including a cartridge chamber;
- a toner cartridge movable between a mounting position in which the toner cartridge is mounted on the cartridge chamber and a pop-up position in which the toner cartridge protrudes from the cartridge chamber;
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- a chamber door to open and close the cartridge chamber and to switch to an open position to open the cartridge chamber based on the toner cartridge being in the pop-up position.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a cartridge chamber including a toner cartridge;
- a pop-up motor;
- a coupling member including with a driving coupler to transmit a rotational force of the pop-up motor to the toner cartridge;
- a push member connected to the coupling member to push the toner cartridge to a pop-up position in which the toner cartridge protrudes from the cartridge chamber based on the coupling member being reversely rotated;
- a chamber door to open and close the cartridge chamber;
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- a locking member to switch between a locking position to lock the chamber door in a closed position to close the cartridge chamber and an unlocking position to allow the chamber door to be switched to an open position to open the cartridge chamber by interfering with the toner cartridge in the pop-up position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.