Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Japan Tobacco Inc.

Hideki Nagae

Masaaki Sato

Hiroyuki Munetsugu

Tetsuo Furukawa

Kazuo Chadani

Tatsuya Suzuki

Osamu Anan

Yasufumi Yoshino

Hideki Kakuta

Yu Fukasawa

Tachio Kawai

Yosuke Kashiide

Hiroaki Nakano

Hiroshi Tanabe

Shinjiro Toba

Koji Wada

Mitsuhiro Sato

Masato Miyauchi

Yukio Kubo

Goshi Ozaki

Takashi Kimura

Naoki Hayashi

Kensuke Sato

Yasunobu Inoue

Toru Sakurai

Masanori Kudo

Riho Nagai

Masanari Makino

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a filler for a smoking article, a smoking article comprising the filler for a smoking article, and a method for manufacturing the filler for a smoking article. In one embodiment, the filler according to the present invention for a smoking article, said filler comprising a gel which contains a gelling agent and one or more gelation promoters, is characterized by having a tap density of 0.05 g/cmor less and a degree of suitability to compression filling of more than 60. In one embodiment, the filler according to the present invention for a smoking article is characterized by comprising a gel which contains pectin having an esterification degree of 12% or less and one or more gelation promoters.

Filler for smoking article

An image forming apparatus includes: a cartridge; a developer container, in which the cartridge allows the developer container to be movable between first and second positions; an apparatus main body including an opening through which the cartridge passes when the cartridge is attached and an opening and closing member movable between an open position to open the opening and a close position to close the opening; and a moving member moving to be at different positions between a case where the developer container is attached at the first position and a case where it is attached at the second position, and when the developer container is attached at the first position, the moving member is at a position of preventing movement from the open position to the close position, and when it is attached at the second position, the moving member is at a position of allowing the movement.

Development cartridge, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus

Bearing for process cartridge for image forming apparatus

Side cover for process cartridge for image forming apparatus

Process cartridge for image forming apparatus

A development container includes a positioning portion and a rotation stop portion engaged with and guided by a guide of an image forming apparatus, and a longitudinal positioning portion, at one end in an axial direction of a developer carrying member. In a state where a cartridge is attached to the image forming apparatus, when a cross-sectional positioning range is defined by using a width, having one end at a point at which the rotation stop portion contacts the guide and another end at a point at which the positioning portion contacts the guide in an attachment direction of the cartridge, and a height being a width of the guide at the point at which the rotation stop portion contacts the guide or the point at which the positioning portion contacts the guide, the longitudinal positioning portion overlaps the cross-sectional positioning range in a longitudinal direction.

Cartridge and member used for cartridge

A process cartridge attachable to and detachable from an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a first unit having an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a second unit including a developing roller configured to develop a latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a sheet member which is disposed along the developing roller in a lengthwise direction of the developing roller and contacts the electrophotographic photosensitive member to restrain scattering of developer. The second unit is movably connected to the first unit and can move between a contact position in which the developing roller contacts the electrophotographic photosensitive member and a separated position in which the developing roller separates from the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The sheet member is arranged so that the sheet member contacts the electrophotographic photosensitive member when the second unit is positioned at the contact position and when the second unit is positioned at the separated position.

Process cartridge having toner scatter preventing sheet and photoelectrographic image forming apparatus

A process cartridge attachable to and detachable from an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a first unit having an electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a second unit including a developing roller configured to develop a latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive member, and a sheet member which is disposed along the developing roller in a lengthwise direction of the developing roller and contacts the electrophotographic photosensitive member to restrain scattering of developer, wherein a contact portion of the sheet member that contacts the electrophotographic photosensitive member is roughened by a roughening process.

Process cartridge having toner scatter preventing sheet having roughened contact end and photoelectrographic image forming apparatus

A winding member winds a seal member that seals an opening of a developer storage unit. The winding member includes a first holding portion having a first engaging portion, and a second holding portion having a second engaging portion to be engaged with the first engaging portion, configured to hold the sealing member between the first and second holding portions, wherein an end of the first holding portion and an end of the second holding portion are connected, so that the first holding portion and the second holding portion are relatively movable, and wherein the first engaging portion is engaged with the second engaging portion while the sealing member is held between the first holding portion and the second holding portion.

Winding member, cartridge, and cartridge assembling method

Process cartridge

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideki Nagae