Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cartridge and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 墨盒和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12466058Application Date: 2009-05-14
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Publication No.: US08515306B2Publication Date: 2013-08-20
- Inventor: Tachio Kawai , Tadashi Horikawa , Hiroshi Takarada , Takashi Nakanishi
- Applicant: Tachio Kawai , Tadashi Horikawa , Hiroshi Takarada , Takashi Nakanishi
- Applicant Address: JP Toko
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toko
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2008-135683 20080523
- Main IPC: G03G21/16
- IPC: G03G21/16

Abstract:
A cartridge is detachably insertable into a main assembly of the image forming apparatus. The main assembly includes an opening, and urging, positioning, and regulating portions. The cartridge includes an urgable portion urged by the urging portion in a direction crossing a cartridge-inserting direction after cartridge insertion. The cartridge also includes a positionable portion positioned by contacting the positioning portion by the urging portion moving the cartridge in the crossing direction, and a regulatable portion regulated by the regulating portion to prevent cartridge movement toward the opening when the positionable portion contacts the positioning portion. The regulatable portion is at the cartridge rear and is brought, by cartridge movement in the crossing direction by the urging portion, behind the regulating portion with respect to the inserting direction to prevent cartridge movement toward the opening.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090290904A1 CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-11-26
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