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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2008
Hiroshi Mizuno, Aisai, JP;
Isamu Kugimiya, Toyokawa, JP;
Takeshi Hashimoto, Okazaki, JP;
Naoto Yoshida, Toyokawa, JP;
Nozomu Kondo, Toyokawa, JP;
Hiroshi Mizuno, Aisai, JP;
Isamu Kugimiya, Toyokawa, JP;
Takeshi Hashimoto, Okazaki, JP;
Naoto Yoshida, Toyokawa, JP;
Nozomu Kondo, Toyokawa, JP;
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging cartridge has a process unit and a toner box unit formed by integrating a new toner box and a waste toner box. The toner box unit is attachable to and detachable from the process unit. Shutters which open and close a connecting section between the new toner box and a developing device included in the process unit can be opened by manual operation when the toner box unit is attached to the process unit. Shutters and which open and close a connecting section between a cleaning device included in the process unit and the waste toner box are opened when the imaging cartridge is in the process of being moved to a prescribed position in an apparatus body.