US 11,940,753 B2
Developer supply container and developer supplying system
Hiromasa Katayama, Tokyo (JP); Manabu Jimba, Tsukuba (JP); Akihito Kamura, Nagareyama (JP); and Katsuya Murakami, Toride (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/130,926.
Application 18/130,926 is a division of application No. 17/386,739, filed on Jul. 28, 2021, granted, now 11,650,537.
Application 17/386,739 is a division of application No. 16/751,759, filed on Jan. 24, 2020, granted, now 11,150,598, issued on Oct. 19, 2021.
Application 16/751,759 is a division of application No. 16/354,681, filed on Mar. 15, 2019, granted, now 10,558,161, issued on Feb. 11, 2020.
Application 16/354,681 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/036617, filed on Sep. 21, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2017-181803 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0244177 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1647 (2013.01) [G03G 15/08 (2013.01); G03G 21/16 (2013.01); G03G 21/1676 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus, the developer receiving apparatus including a developer receiving portion provided with a receiving port for receiving a developer and including a portion-to-be-engaged capable of displacing integrally with the developer receiving portion, the developer supply container comprising:
a rotatable developer accommodating portion for accommodating the developer;
a discharging portion provided at a bottom side thereof with a discharge opening for discharging the developer accommodating in the developer accommodating portion;
an engaging portion engageable with the portion-to-be-engaged with a mounting operation of the developer supply container to displace the developer receiving portion in a displacing direction so as to bring the receiving opening into fluid communication with the discharge opening; and
a supporting portion provided upstream of the engaging portion in an inserting direction in which the developer accommodating portion is inserted into the developer receiving apparatus, the supporting portion extending in a direction of a rotational axis of the developer accommodating portion, and the supporting portion being capable of supporting the portion-to-be-engaged delivered from the engaging portion,
wherein, when the discharge opening and the receiving opening are in fluid communication with each other, a maximum height of the engaging portion is higher than a supporting surface of the supporting portion which supports the portion-to-be-engaged, and
wherein a downstream end of the supporting portion in the inserting direction is between a bottom end portion and a top end portion of the engaging portion, and
wherein the supporting portion connects to the engaging portion between the bottom end portion and the top end portion.