Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakayuki Suzuki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a mounting portion on which a toner container provided with an accommodating portion configured to accommodate toner is mountable; and an opening connectable with an opening provided in the toner container to be in fluid communication with the toner accommodating portion when the toner container is mounted to the mounting portion. The mounting portion is provided with a rib extending in a mounting direction in which the toner container is mounted to the mounting portion and configured to guide a bottom surface of the toner container in the mounting direction, the rib including a plurality of sets of alternating peak and valley arranged along a longitudinal direction of the rib.
Claims25
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a mounting portion on which a developer container provided with an accommodating portion configured to accommodate developer is mountable;
- a drive input portion configured to input a driving force for rotating the developer container mounted in said mounting portion, to the developer container;
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- a developer receiving portion for receiving developer discharged from the developer container by the rotation thereof,
- wherein said mounting portion is provided with a rib extending in a dismounting direction, in which the developer container is dismounted from said mounting portion, said rib being configured to guide a bottom portion of the developer container in the dismounting direction, and said rib including a plurality of sets of alternating peaks and valleys arranged along a longitudinal direction of said rib, and heights of the peaks as measured from the valleys are not less than 1 mm and not more than 10 mm.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a mounting portion on which a developer container provided with an accommodating portion configured to accommodate developer is mountable;
- an image forming portion for forming an image on a recording material;
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- a discharge opening for discharging, into the developer container, developer discharged from said image forming portion,
- wherein said mounting portion is provided with a rib extending in a dismounting direction, in which the developer container is dismounted from said mounting portion, said rib being configured to guide a bottom portion of the developer container in the dismounting direction, and said rib including a plurality of sets of alternating peaks and valleys arranged along a longitudinal direction of said rib, and heights of the peaks as measured from the valleys are not less than 1 mm and not more than 10 mm.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a mounting portion on which a developer container provided with an accommodating portion configured to accommodate developer is mountable;
- a drive input portion configured to input a driving force for rotating the developer container mounted in said mounting portion, to the developer container;
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- a developer receiving portion for receiving developer discharged from the developer container by the rotation thereof,
- wherein said mounting portion is provided with a rib, provided on said mounting portion at a position below a level of a rotational axis of the developer container and extending in a dismounting direction, in which the developer container is dismounted from said mounting portion, said rib being configured to guide the developer container in the dismounting direction, and said rib including a plurality of sets of alternating peaks and valleys arranged along a longitudinal direction of said rib, and heights of the peaks as measured from the valleys are not less than 1 mm and not more than 10 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.