IP Library Granted Patent US 10,088,774
Granted Patent B2
US 10,088,774 · App. 15/636,298 · Granted Oct 2, 2018

Toner container

Inventors: Dean J. Richtsmeier (Boise, ID); Robin Pierce Yergenson (Eagle, ID); Richard L. Swantner (Rapid City, SD)
Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
G03G15/0875
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Patent No.
US 10,088,774
App. No.
15/636,298
Granted
Oct 2, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

In one example, a toner container has an interior volume defined by a body and a pair of wings extending up and out from the body.

Claims (6)

1. A toner container, comprising a U-shaped interior volume that extends from side to side in a direction parallel to an axial length of a photoconductor and from front to rear in a direction perpendicular to the axial length of the photoconductor when the container is in a printer, the interior volume including a lower chamber and an upper chamber on each side of the lower chamber, and wherein each of the upper chambers is defined in part by a floor that slopes in toward the lower chamber from side to side.

2. The toner container of claim 1 , wherein the floor of each of the upper chambers slopes down toward the lower chamber from front to rear.

3. The toner container of claim 1 , further comprising toner in the interior volume.

4. The toner container of claim 1 , wherein the interior volume has a capacity sufficient to store enough toner to print a minimum number of pages that corresponds to a predetermined expected useful life of a printer.

5. The toner container of claim 4 , wherein the minimum number of pages is more than 30,000 pages.

6. The toner container of claim 1 , wherein the lower chamber lies below an imaging light path in a printer and extends from near a photoconductor at a rear of the printer forward to a front of the printer.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 1, 2017
From: RICHTSMEIER, DEAN J.; YERGENSON, ROBIN PIERCE; SWANTNER, RICHARD L.
To: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
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Continuity (3)
Continuation 15131960 · Apr 18, 2016
Division 14391399
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