Invention Application
- Patent Title: TONER CARTRIDGE
- Patent Title (中): 墨粉盒
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Application No.: US12246305Application Date: 2008-10-06
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Publication No.: US20090097886A1Publication Date: 2009-04-16
- Inventor: Kyoichi YOSHIZAWA , Yukio YAMADA , Koji SODA , Hideaki KATSUOKA
- Applicant: Kyoichi YOSHIZAWA , Yukio YAMADA , Koji SODA , Hideaki KATSUOKA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Priority: JP2007-268729 20071016
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
There is provided a toner cartridge capable of suppressing the use of the toner cartridge beyond its lifetime due to excessive refilling of toner, the toner cartridge including a housing 2 which forms an internal space for housing toner to be fed to an image forming apparatus and which has a filling port 6 for filling the internal space with the toner, a divider plate 4 which is pivotably supported in a swingable manner inside the housing 2 and which can divide the internal space when being hung down by gravity, and a fixing means which can fit the divider plate 4 in between an engaging projection 9 and a stopper 10 by screw-feeding the lower end of the divider plate 4 by a feed screw 3 for feeding toner and which can fix the divider plate 4 in the state of dividing the internal space.
Public/Granted literature
- US07929886B2 Toner cartridge having a divider plate to prevent excessive refilling Public/Granted day:2011-04-19
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