US 12,455,518 B2
Reusable toner container
Tomoo Miyagawa, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed by KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/883,377.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-150925 (JP), filed on Sep. 19, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0093797 A1, Mar. 20, 2025
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0886 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0865 (2013.01); G03G 15/0894 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00987 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toner container comprising:
a tank including a cylindrical loading port, through which toner is to be loaded; and
a cap formed of a flexible material, and configured to close the loading port,
wherein the cap includes:
a fitting portion formed in a cylindrical shape that fits an inner surface of the loading port;
a bottom portion located on a far side of the fitting portion, in a cap insertion direction; and
a flange portion located on a near side of the fitting portion in the cap insertion direction, to be made to contact an edge of the loading port, and
the fitting portion is formed with a cut-away portion formed in an annular shape along a circumferential direction of the fitting portion.