Developer container

• US 10,642,191 B1
• Filed: 10/08/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jiangxi Kilider Technology Co. ,Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Jiangxi Kilider Technology Co. ,Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhu, Jinjun, Li, Zhongxi, He, Jiabing
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh, Ryan D
• Application Number:
  US16/595,517
• Time in Patent Office: 210 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0822 Arrangements for preparing, mixing, supplying or dispensing developer
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0875 cartridges having a box like shape
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0877 Arrangements for metering and dispensing developer from a developer cartridge into the development unit
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0886 by mechanical means, e.g. shutter, plug
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0889 for agitation or stirring
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/0891 for conveying or circulating developer, e.g. augers
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/1647 Mechanical connection means
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/1857 for transmitting mechanical drive power to the process cartridge, drive mechanisms, gears, couplings, braking mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 21/186 Axial couplings
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/0634 Developing device
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/066 Toner cartridge or other attachable and detachable container for supplying developer material to replace the used material
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/068 having a box like shape
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/0692 using a slidable sealing member, e.g. shutter
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/0802 Arrangements for agitating or circulating developer material
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2215/0816 Agitator type
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 2221/1657 transmitting mechanical drive power

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a developer container including a developer supplying box and a developer containing box. A first gear is rotatably connected to the developer supplying box, and a rotating shaft is inserted into the first gear; first stirring blades are fixed to two sides of the rotating shaft, and a second stirring blade is fixed at the rotating shaft; a first sliding cover is sleeved on the developer supplying box, and a sliding cover powder outlet is disposed on the first sliding cover; a supply box powder outlet is disposed on the developer supplying box; the first gear is engaged with a second gear, the second gear is engaged with a third gear, the third gear is engaged with a fourth gear, and the fourth gear is engaged with a fifth gear; and a screw feeding rod is inserting into the fifth gear.

Claims

1. A developer container, comprising:

a developer supplying box (1); and

a developer containing box (2);

wherein, the developer supplying box (1) is inserted to fix at an upper end of the developer containing box (2);

a first gear (3) is rotatably connected to an outer side of a side wall of the developer supplying box (1), and a rotating shaft (4) is inserted into the first gear (3);

the rotating shaft (4) is located inside the developer supplying box (1), a plurality of first stirring blades (5) are fixedly connected to two sides of the rotating shaft (4) in a symmetrical manner, and a second stirring blade (6) is fixed at a middle portion of the rotating shaft (4);

a first sliding cover (7) is sleeved on a middle portion of an outer side of the developer supplying box (1), and a sliding cover powder outlet (8) is disposed on a front side of the first sliding cover (7);

a supply box powder outlet (9) is disposed on a middle portion of a front side of the developer supplying box (1) to match the sliding cover powder outlet (8);

a lower side of the first gear (3) is engaged with a second gear (10) to form a transmission connection, a lower side of the second gear (10) is engaged with a third gear (11) to form a transmission connection, a side of the third gear (11) is engaged with a fourth gear (12) to form a transmission connection, and a lower side of the fourth gear (12) is engaged with a fifth gear (13) to form a transmission connection;

a screw feeding rod (14) is inserting into the fifth gear (13), and the screw feeding rod (14) is located in a middle portion inside the developer containing box (2).

2. The developer container of claim 1, wherein an end of the rotating shaft (4) away from the first gear (3) is provided with a ring (15), a side cover (16) is rotatably connected with the ring (15), and the side cover (16) is fixed on an outer wall of the developer supplying box (1).

3. The developer container of claim 2, wherein a plug (17) is inserted into a middle portion of the side cover (16), a sealing ring (18) is sleeved on the plug (17), and the sealing ring (18) closely contacts with the side cover (16).

4. The developer container of claim 1, wherein a powder waste inlet (20) is disposed on a side of the developer containing box (2) adjacent to the fifth gear (13), the second sliding cover (19) is slidably connected to an outer side of the powder waste inlet (20), and the second sliding cover (19) is disposed on the developer containing box (2).

5. The developer container of claim 1, wherein a sixth gear (21) is fixed to an end of the screw feed rod (14) away from the fifth gear (13), the sixth gear (21) is located at an outer side of the developer containing box (2) and is rotatably connected to a side wall of the developer containing box (2), and a side of the sixth gear (21) is engaged with a seventh gear (22) to form a transmission connection, a side of the seventh gear (22) is engaged with an eighth gear (23) to form a transmission connection, a connecting rod (24) is fixed with the eighth gear (23), a rocker arm (25) is fixed to an end of the connecting rod (24) away from the eighth gear (23), a detection cover (26) covers an outer side of the rocker arm (25), the detection cover (26) is fixed to an outer wall of the developer containing box (2), and a detection opening (27) is formed at an end of the detection cover (26).

6. The developer container of claim 1, wherein a position limiter (28) is integrally formed on an outer wall of the developer supplying box (1), and a chuck (30) matching the position limiter (28) is integrally formed on the first sliding cover (7).

7. The developer container of claim 1, wherein an outer wall of the first sliding cover (7) is provided with anti-slip patterns (29) in an even manner.

8. The developer container of claim 1, wherein the first stirring blades (5) on the two sides of the rotating shaft (4) are symmetrically disposed to have included angles opposite with each other with respect to an axis of a body of the rotating shaft (4) between two corresponding first stirring blades (5), and the second stirring blade (6) is disposed parallel to the axis of the body of the rotating shaft (4).