US 11,835,885 B2
Image forming system
Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Kanagawa (JP); and Shohei Katsuya, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/149,946.
Application 18/149,946 is a continuation of application No. 17/535,480, filed on Nov. 24, 2021, granted, now 11,556,080.
Application 17/535,480 is a continuation of application No. 17/320,034, filed on May 13, 2021, granted, now 11,215,940, issued on Jan. 4, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-089814 (JP), filed on May 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0143399 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0886 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0867 (2013.01); G03G 21/1676 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0692 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus to and from which a toner container is attachable and detachable, the toner container being provide with a discharge port through which the toner contained in the toner container is discharged to an outside of the toner container, the image forming apparatus comprising:
an attaching unit to which the toner container is attached in an attaching direction, the attaching unit including:
a base portion provided with a receiving port for receiving the toner discharged from the discharge port of the toner container, the receiving port having a first region and a second region, the first region being overlapped with the discharge port of the toner container attached to the attaching unit when viewed in the attaching direction, the second region being not overlapping with the discharge port of the toner container attached to the attaching unit when viewed in the attaching direction, and
a shutter having a shutter opening and a shutter closing portion, the shutter being configured to move, with respect to the base portion, between a first position and a second position, the first position being a position where the shutter closing portion of the shutter closes the first region of the receiving port and where the shutter opening of the shutter communicates with the second region of the receiving port, the second position being a positon where the shutter opening of the shutter communicates with the first region of the receiving port; and
a containing portion for containing the toner received through the receiving port of the base portion.