Toner cartridge
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
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.
Claims9
A toner cartridge comprising:
- a toner container which contains toner;
- a lid which is connected to the toner container;
- a toner supplying opening which supplies the toner;
- an agitating member which agitates the toner;
- a conveying member which conveys the toner toward the toner supplying opening;
- a first gear which rotates the agitating member;
- a second gear which rotates the conveying member;
- a rotational body which has a plurality of slits in rotational circumference to discriminate a type of the toner cartridge and is concentrically connected with the first gear;
- a first gear cover which is connected with the lid and surrounds a circumference of the first gear except for a part where the lid surrounds the circumference of the first gear;
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- a second gear cover which is connected with the first gear cover and surrounds a circumference of the second gear.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.