US 12,393,153 B2
Toner container
Makoto Hayashida, Shizuoka (JP); Yuuki Nakamura, Shizuoka (JP); Go Torii, Kanagawa (JP); and Takayuki Yada, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/204,420.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-102266 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0418208 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 21/10 (2006.01); G03G 15/01 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/12 (2006.01); G03G 21/18 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/105 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0121 (2013.01); G03G 15/0822 (2013.01); G03G 15/0844 (2013.01); G03G 15/0865 (2013.01); G03G 15/0867 (2013.01); G03G 15/0872 (2013.01); G03G 15/0877 (2013.01); G03G 15/0891 (2013.01); G03G 15/0896 (2013.01); G03G 21/0052 (2013.01); G03G 21/10 (2013.01); G03G 21/12 (2013.01); G03G 21/1803 (2013.01); G03G 21/1814 (2013.01); G03G 21/1817 (2013.01); G03G 21/20 (2013.01); G03G 21/206 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toner container comprising:
a first chamber configured to accommodate toner and provided with an outlet port through which the toner is discharged outside of the toner container;
a second chamber provided with an inlet port and configured to accommodate toner to be received from an outside of the toner container through the inlet port;
a stirring member configured to stir the toner accommodated in the first chamber and to rotate about a rotational axis; and
an air supply unit configured to supply air for discharging the toner accommodated in the first chamber to an outside of the toner container through the outlet port,
wherein the air supply unit, the first chamber, and the second chamber are aligned in this order in a direction of the rotational axis.