US 12,332,580 B2
Image forming apparatus including a housing with a cover to store a toner bottle
Tatsuya Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroaki Nieda, Kanagawa (JP); and Naoki Matsuda, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Tatsuya Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroaki Nieda, Kanagawa (JP); and Naoki Matsuda, Kanagawa (JP)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/388,262.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-180265 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0160125 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 15/04 (2006.01); G03G 21/18 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0868 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0409 (2013.01); G03G 21/1842 (2013.01); G03G 2215/066 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1687 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a housing to store a toner bottle, the housing including:
an insertion opening to which the toner bottle is insertable; and
a cover including an opening and openably closable the insertion opening,
wherein the toner bottle is visible from the opening of the cover at a closed position,
wherein the image forming apparatus further comprises a projecting component,
wherein at least a part of the projecting component enters the opening of the cover when the cover is fully opened.