US 12,306,567 B2
Replenishing system
Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/420,989.
Application 18/420,989 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/028283, filed on Jul. 13, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-130309 (JP), filed on Aug. 6, 2021; and application No. 2021-196005 (JP), filed on Dec. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0168425 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/5091 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0865 (2013.01); G03G 15/5016 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0695 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A replenishing system comprising:
a first image forming apparatus including a first image forming portion for forming an image on a recording material with a consumable agent, a first accommodating portion for accommodating the consumable agent and a first mounting port;
a second image forming apparatus including a second image forming portion for forming an image on a recording material with a consumable agent, a second accommodating portion for accommodating the consumable agent and a second mounting port different from the first mounting port in a shape;
a first accommodating device provided with a first interface portion and configured to accommodate a consumable agent consumed for image formation; and
a second accommodating device provided with a second interface portion different from the first interface portion in a shape and configured to accommodate a consumable agent consumed for the image formation,
wherein the first interface portion is mountable on the first mounting port, the consumable agent accommodated by the first accommodating device is capable of being replenished to the first accommodating portion and the second interface portion is not mountable on the first mounting port, and
wherein each of the first interface portion and the second interface portion is mountable on the second mounting port, the consumable agent accommodated by the first accommodating device and the consumable agent accommodated by the second accommodating device are capable of being replenished to the second accommodating portion.