TONER CONTAINER, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING SAME, AND CONNECTING STRUCTURE FOR CONNECTING TONER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
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Abstract
A toner container includes a cylindrical container body, a cap having a toner outlet, and a shutter. The cap includes a primary positioning primary positioning hole, formed in a top front surface perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction, to determine an installation position of the cap relative to the image forming apparatus, a secondary positioning hole, formed in a bottom front surface perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the toner container, extending in the longitudinal direction forward the toner outlet, to subsidiary determine the installation position of the cap, and a first restriction member to position the cap in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, projecting vertically upward from an outer circumferential surface of the cap and symmetrical about a virtual perpendicular line passing through a cross-sectional center position of the primary positioning hole perpendicular to the longitudinal direction.
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8 Claims
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1. (canceled)
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2. A toner container to contain toner and removably installable in an image forming apparatus horizontally in a longitudinal direction of the toner container, the toner container comprising:
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a toner outlet to discharge toner vertically downward to an outside of the toner container; a shutter to open and close the toner outlet; a primary hole formed in an upper surface of the toner container and extending in the longitudinal direction of the toner container from a front surface of the toner container perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof; a secondary hole disposed below the primary hole and extending in the longitudinal direction of the toner container not to reach the toner outlet from the front surface of the toner container perpendicular to the longitudinal direction thereof toward the toner outlet; and a restriction member projecting horizontally from lateral sides on an outer circumferential surface of the toner container and extending in the longitudinal direction of the toner container, the restriction member to restrict the toner container with respect to the image forming apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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Specification