Toner container with grippable recesses and image forming apparatus having such a toner container
US7613416B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Sep 27, 2006 |
| Grant date | Nov 3, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 4, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG03G2221/1815
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
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.
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