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US 11,782,382 · App. 17/950,379 · Granted Oct 10, 2023

Developer supply container and developer supplying system

Inventors: Yohei Gamo (Abiko, JP); Daijiro Kato (Abiko, JP); Yusuke Oizumi (Toride, JP); Ayatomo Okino (Moriya, JP)
Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
G03G21/1647G03G15/087G03G15/0867G03G15/0877G03G15/0886G03G21/1676
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Patent No.
US 11,782,382
App. No.
17/950,379
Granted
Oct 10, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating body configured to accommodate developer, with the developer accommodating portion being provided with a gear portion. The developer supply container also includes a developer discharging body in fluid communication with the developer accommodating body, with the developer accommodating body being rotatable about a rotational axis thereof relative to the developer discharging body. A track is provided at each of opposite sides of the developer discharging body, each track including a fixed portion fixed on the discharging body and an elastically deformable portion extending from the fixed portion to a free end portion that is displaceable from the discharging body such that the elastically deformable portion intersects a horizontal plane that is parallel to the rotational axis.

Claims (5)

1. A developer supply container comprising:

a developer accommodating body configured to accommodate developer, the developer accommodating portion being provided with a gear portion;

a developer discharging body in fluid communication with the developer accommodating body, the developer discharging body having a discharge opening, with the discharge opening being configured to form at least a part of a discharge passageway through which developer may be discharged to outside of the developer supply container, with an end of the discharge passageway being positioned at a bottommost side of the developer supply container, and with the developer accommodating body being rotatable about a rotational axis thereof relative to the developer discharging body; and

a track provided at each of opposite sides of the developer discharging body, each track including a fixed portion fixed on the discharging body and an elastically deformable portion extending from the fixed portion to a free end portion that is displaceable from the discharging body such that the elastically deformable portion intersects a horizontal plane that is parallel to the rotational axis.

2. A developer supply container according to claim 1 , further comprising a projection projected from each of the opposite sides of the discharging body, each projection having a portion that is in a movable range of the elastically deformable portion of the track on the same side of the discharging body.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-181798 · Sep 21, 2017 · national
Continuity (5)
Division 17388168 · Jul 29, 2021
Division 16790957 · Feb 14, 2020
Division 16353215 · Mar 14, 2019
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