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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Goshi Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Kanagawa, JP;
Teruhiko Sasaki, Shizuoka, JP;
Tachio Kawai, Tokyo, JP;
Akinobu Hirayama, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshiki Fujino, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming system includes a toner container and an image forming apparatus to which the toner container is detachably mountable. The image forming apparatus includes a mounting portion to which the toner container is detachably mountable. The toner container includes an accommodating portion configured to accommodate toner, a discharge portion provided with an opening for discharging the toner in the accommodating portion to outside of the toner container, a rotatable member rotatable, relative to the discharge portion, about a rotational axis in a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction that is opposite to the first rotational direction, and a projection provided below the opening of the discharge portion, the projection having inner peripheral surface such that, when the toner container is oriented in a predetermined direction in which the rotational axis extends in a direction of gravity and at least a part of the discharge portion is below the accommodating portion, the inner peripheral surface faces inward in a radial direction of an imaginary circle centered on the rotational axis.