US 12,169,376 B2
Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus
Akinobu Hirayama, Shizuoka (JP); Toshiki Fujino, Kanagawa (JP); Teruhiko Sasaki, Shizuoka (JP); Tachio Kawai, Tokyo (JP); and Daisuke Abe, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/233,381.
Application 18/233,381 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2022/012487, filed on Mar. 11, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-042969 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2021; and application No. 2021-042970 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0384711 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0868 (2013.01) [G03G 15/087 (2013.01); G03G 21/206 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0663 (2013.01)] 37 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A toner cartridge comprising:
a casing accommodating toner and provided with a toner discharge opening through which the accommodated toner is capable of being discharged;
a fan configured to feed a gas around thereof by rotation thereof;
a closing member capable of shifting between a closed position for closing a flow path for the gas fed by the fan and an open position for opening the flow path; and
a drive receiving member configured to receive a driving force from outside of the toner cartridge and to transmit the driving force toward the fan and the closing member by rotation thereof,
wherein the closing member is configured to be periodically shifted between the closed position and the open position by receiving the driving force.