Patent · US Expired

Developer supplying container, developing device having same and process cartridge

US5778282A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 14, 1997
Grant dateJul 7, 1998
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Expiry dateMay 14, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G2221/183
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A guide surface for engaging by a flexible film member closing a developer discharge opening of a developer supplying container is disposed at a downstream side of an elastic seal member against which the film is slidingly contacted when the film is pulled out, whereby the film is bent convexly against the elastic seal member.

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