Invention Grant
US08843034B2 Toner container, toner container frame, and image forming apparatus incorporating same
有权
调色剂容器,调色剂容器框架和包含其的图像形成装置
- Patent Title: Toner container, toner container frame, and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 调色剂容器,调色剂容器框架和包含其的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13467413Application Date: 2012-05-09
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Publication No.: US08843034B2Publication Date: 2014-09-23
- Inventor: Masayuki Yamane , Tadashi Hayakawa , Kunihiro Ohyama , Takeshi Uchitani , Yasufumi Takahashi
- Applicant: Masayuki Yamane , Tadashi Hayakawa , Kunihiro Ohyama , Takeshi Uchitani , Yasufumi Takahashi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-124947 20110603
- Main IPC: G03G15/08
- IPC: G03G15/08

Abstract:
A toner container is removably installable in an image forming apparatus having a communication portion and a positioning hole. The toner container includes an electronic data storage device disposed on a surface of the toner container, to communicate with the communication portion in the image forming apparatus, the electronic data storage device having an engaged hole; and a positioning projection, formed in the surface of the toner container, to engage the engaged hole of the electronic data storage device and the positioning hole in the image forming apparatus. The positioning projection inserts into the positioning hole in the image forming apparatus with the positioning projection engaging the engaged hole in the electronic data storage device to determine an installation position of the toner container relative to the image forming apparatus and set the electronic data storage device relative to the communication portion in the image forming apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120308242A1 TONER CONTAINER, TONER CONTAINER FRAME, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2012-12-06
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