Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Younghoon Kim

Junhui Kim

Woongyong Choi

Seongho Park

Seunggweon Lee

Wontaek Kim

Hwanghee Ryu

Hanjun Lee

Sungjin Kim

Hohyun Hwang

Saehoon Han

An example image forming apparatus includes a main body including an opening and an accommodation portion, a development cartridge detachable from the main body, a tray on which to mount the development cartridge, the tray being movable between a mounting position inserted into the main body through the opening, a withdrawal position extracted from the main body, and an accommodation position at which the development cartridge is accommodated in the accommodation portion, and an elastic support member to elastically support the development cartridge with respect to the tray while the tray moves between the mounting position, the withdrawal position, and the accommodation position.

Structure for mounting development cartridge in image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a main body frame, a developer cartridge detachably mounted on the main body frame, a driving gear deployed on one side of the main body frame to rotate in a first direction to drive the developer cartridge, and a locking member deployed between the driving gear and the developer cartridge to fix the developer cartridge in a locking position in which the developer cartridge is mounted on the main body frame, wherein the locking member is to move the developer cartridge to an unlocking position in which the developer cartridge is separated from the main body frame by a rotation of the driving gear in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Coupler holder based toner locking system

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Younghoon Kim