US 12,105,441 B2
Toner container and image forming system
Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroshi Takarada, Kanagawa (JP); and Mitsuhiro Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 9, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/207,819.
Application 18/207,819 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/046390, filed on Dec. 15, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-207976 (JP), filed on Dec. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0324829 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0865 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0822 (2013.01); G03G 15/0874 (2013.01); G03G 15/0877 (2013.01); G03G 15/0879 (2013.01); G03G 15/0886 (2013.01); G03G 15/0887 (2013.01); G03G 15/0891 (2013.01); G03G 15/0896 (2013.01); G03G 2215/066 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0682 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0692 (2013.01); G03G 2215/08 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toner container comprising:
a storage portion configured to store toner and including an opening portion at an end of the storage portion in a first direction; and
a communicating member connected to the opening portion and aligned with the storage portion in the first direction, the communicating member including a receiving port configured to receive the toner stored in the storage portion, a discharge port through which the toner is discharged and which is open toward a second direction perpendicularly intersecting with the first direction, and a passage configured to allow the toner to pass through from the receiving port to the discharge port,
wherein the passage includes a first inclined surface, and a second inclined surface connecting the first inclined surface and the discharge port,
wherein, when viewed in a third direction perpendicularly intersecting with both of the first direction and the second direction, the first inclined surface is inclined with respect to the second direction such that a more downstream portion of the first inclined surface in the first direction is closer to the discharge port in the second direction,
wherein, when viewed in the third direction, the second inclined surface is inclined with respect to the second direction such that a more downstream portion of the second inclined surface in the first direction is closer to the discharge port in the second direction, and the second inclined surface is inclined at an inclination angle smaller than an inclination angle of the first inclined surface with respect to the second direction, and
wherein a boundary position between the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface in the first direction is positioned between a position of a first end of the discharge port in the first direction and a position of a second end of the discharge port in the first direction.