Developer supply container
AssigneeCanon Kabiushiki Kaisha
InventorsKatsuya Murakami, Yutaka Ban, Nobuo Nakajima
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Abstract
A developer supply container detachably mountable to developer receiving apparatus, includes container body accommodating a developer, the container body being provided with a developer supply port for supplying the developer through a developer receiving port provided in the developer receiving apparatus; a driving connecting member for operatively connecting to a driving member provided in the developer receiving apparatus, the driving connecting member being movable relative to the container body; and an interrelating mechanism for interrelating movement of the driving connecting member with movement of the developer supply port to face the developer receiving port.
Claims20
A developer supply container detachably settable to a developer receiving apparatus by a setting operation including at least a rotation thereof, said container comprising:
- a container body configured to contain a developer, said container body having a developer discharge opening configured and positioned to discharge the developer toward a developer receiving opening provided in the developer receiving apparatus;
- a rotatable feeding member configured and positioned to feed the developer in said container body toward said developer discharge opening;
- a drive coupling member configured and positioned to operatively couple with a driving member provided in the developer receiving apparatus to receive a rotational force for rotating said feeding member, said drive coupling member being movable relative to said container body to a position for operative coupling with the driving member in a rotational axis direction thereof;
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- an interrelating mechanism configured and positioned to interrelate an operation of movement of said drive coupling member to the position with an operation of rotational movement of said developer discharge opening to face the developer receiving opening by the setting operation.
A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus including a developer receiving opening and an apparatus shutter for opening and closing the developer receiving opening, said container comprising:
- a container body configured to contain a developer, said container body having a developer discharge opening configured and positioned to discharge the developer toward the developer receiving opening provided in the developer receiving apparatus;
- a rotatable feeding member configured and positioned to feed the developer in said container body toward said developer discharge opening;
- a drive coupling member configured and positioned to operatively couple with a driving member provided in the developer receiving apparatus to receive a driving force, said drive coupling member being movable relative to said container body to a position for operative coupling with the drive member in a rotational axis direction thereof;
- an engaging portion engageable with the apparatus shutter to open the apparatus shutter by rotation thereof;
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- an interrelating mechanism configured and positioned to interrelate an operation of movement of said drive coupling member to the position with an opening operation of the apparatus shutter by said engaging portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.