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Patent No.:

US 11226572 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 28, 2020

Process unit, developing cartridge and toner cartridge for use with image forming apparatus

Applicant:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Inventors:

Takashi Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;

Kazuma Hinoue, Nagoya, JP;

Takashi Shimizu, Nagoya, JP;

Takashi Yasuda, Nagoya, JP;

Yoshifumi Kajikawa, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;

Attorney:

Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

Primary Examiner:

Susan S Lee

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/14 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/08 (2013.01); G03G 15/0877 (2013.01); G03G 15/50 (2013.01); G03G 15/6511 (2013.01); G03G 21/14 (2013.01); G03G 15/556 (2013.01);
Abstract

A toner cartridge is mountable on a developing device including a developing roller. The developing device develops an electrostatic latent image formed on a photo conductor. The toner cartridge includes a housing in which toner is stored, and an auger rotatable and configured to supply the toner in the housing to the developing device. In a case where the developing device is installed on an image forming apparatus in a state in which the toner cartridge is mounted on the developing device, rotation of the auger is started before formation of the electrostatic latent image corresponding to a sheet is started, based on a signal indicating that the image forming apparatus detects the sheet.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Suzuki, Takashi. (2022). Process unit, developing cartridge and toner cartridge for use with image forming apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 11226572). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/11226572

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