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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2014
Eisuke Hori, Ota-ku, JP;
Yuji Suzuki, Ota-ku, JP;
Hideki Kimura, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Kikuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyuki Kimura, Kawasaki, JP;
Nobuo Takami, Kawasaki, JP;
Eisuke Hori, Ota-ku, JP;
Yuji Suzuki, Ota-ku, JP;
Hideki Kimura, Yokohama, JP;
Kenji Kikuchi, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyuki Kimura, Kawasaki, JP;
Nobuo Takami, Kawasaki, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, a cap having a toner outlet, and a shutter. The cap includes a primary positioning primary positioning hole, formed in a top front surface perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction, to determine an installation position of the cap relative to the image forming apparatus, a secondary positioning hole, formed in a bottom front surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction forward the toner outlet, to subsidiary determine the installation position of the cap, and a first restriction member to position the cap in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, projecting vertically upward from an outer circumferential surface of the cap and symmetrical about a virtual perpendicular line passing through a cross-sectional center position of the primary positioning hole perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.