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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yuichi Fukui, Kanagawa, JP;
Goshi Ozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Mitsuhiro Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsushi Uneme, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A toner container includes a toner accommodating portion, a discharge portion, a shutter, a sealing member, and a guiding portion. In a case where a direction from the toner accommodating portion toward the discharge portion in a rotational axis direction is a first direction, where a direction opposite to the first direction is a second direction, and where an end portion of the sealing member on a downstream side of the first direction is a first end portion, a downstream end portion of the guiding portion is positioned downstream of the first end portion of the sealing member with respect to the first direction. The downstream end portion of the guiding portion overlaps with the sealing member as viewed in the rotational axis direction, and includes an inclined surface inclined so as to approach the contact surface of the seal member as it goes in the second direction.