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Patent No.:

US 7613416 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2006

Toner container with grippable recesses and image forming apparatus having such a toner container

Applicants:

Takashi Tamura, Osaka, JP;

Kei Maruyama, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Takashi Tamura, Osaka, JP;

Kei Maruyama, Osaka, JP;

Assignee:

Kyocera Mita Corporation, , JP;

Attorneys:

Gerald E. Hespos

Anthony J. Casella

Primary Examiner:

William J Royer

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image forming apparatus is provided with an apparatus main body including a developing device, and a toner container detachably mountable into the apparatus main body and adapted to replenish the developing device with toner particles. The toner container has grippable recesses, into which fingers are insertable, formed at the opposite side portions of a surface thereof facing in a withdrawing direction from the apparatus main body. A projection sloped downward along the withdrawing direction is preferably provided on a surface of each grippable recess to be gripped by the finger.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Tamura, Takashi. (2009). Toner container with grippable recesses and image forming apparatus having such a toner container (U.S. Patent No. 7613416). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7613416

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