Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Michiaki Endoh

Yutaka Ban

Fumio Tazawa

Hideaki Kosasa

Hironobu Saito

A toner supplying container detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus includes a container body for accommodating toner, the container body being provided with an opening for permitting supply of the toner into a toner receiving container; a removable sealing member for sealing the opening, the sealing member is provided with a force applying portion for applying force for removing the sealing member from the opening; an elastic member urging the force applying portion from a predetermined position in the direction of removing the sealing member; a releasable locking member for releasably locking the force applying portion of the sealing member at the predetermined position against elastic force of the elastic member.

Toner supply container and toner receiving container for receiving toner from same

A fixing apparatus includes rotatable member contactable to a material carrying a toner image to fix the toner image thereon, a first contacting member in sliding contact with a surface of the rotatable member, the first contacting member is reciprocable in a direction of a generating line of the rotatable member, a second contacting member in sliding contact with the surface of the rotatable member at a position different from the first contacting member in a rotational direction, the second contacting member being reciprocable in a direction of generating line of the rotatable member, wherein the first contacting member having a reciprocable movable range without overlapping with a reciprocable movable range of the second contacting member.

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Toride, Japan

Michiaki Endoh