US 11,687,027 B2
Developer supply container and developer supplying system
Manabu Jimba, Toride (JP); Ayatomo Okino, Moriya (JP); Katsuya Murakami, Toride (JP); Toshiaki Nagashima, Moriya (JP); and Fumio Tazawa, Kashiwa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/398,112.
Application 17/398,112 is a division of application No. 14/088,760, filed on Nov. 25, 2013, granted, now 11,137,714.
Application 14/088,760 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2012/065062, filed on Jun. 6, 2012.
Claims priority of application No. 2011-126137 (JP), filed on Jun. 6, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0364979 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. G03G 21/16 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1676 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0879 (2013.01); G03G 15/0886 (2013.01)] 40 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A developer supply container comprising:
a developer accommodating body configured to contain developer;
a developer discharging body in fluid communication with the developer accommodating body, the developer discharging body having a discharge opening, the discharge opening being configured to form at least a part of a discharge passageway through which developer may be discharged to outside of the developer supply container, with an end of the discharge passageway being positioned at a bottommost side of the developer supply container, and with the developer accommodating body being rotatable about a rotational axis thereof relative to the developer discharging body;
a track positioned at a side of the developer discharging body, the track including a surface that extends from a first position to a second position, and
a cover attached to the developer discharging body, the cover being configured to cover the developer discharging body and the track, and the cover including a front wall that crosses the rotational axis, with the front wall being provided with a slit,
wherein, when (i) the developer supply container is oriented with the track positioned below a horizontal plane that includes the rotational axis and (ii) the discharge passageway through which developer is discharged to outside of the developer supply container is formed at the bottommost side of the developer supply container, the second position is closer to the horizontal plane than the first position is to the horizontal plane, the surface faces upward, the track extends such that a plane perpendicular to the rotational axis and passing through the track passes through the end of the discharge passageway, and the slit extends from the bottommost side of the developer supply container toward the horizontal plane.