US 12,169,374 B2
Accommodating container and image forming system
Hiroyuki Munetsugu, Kanagawa (JP); Hiroshi Takarada, Kanagawa (JP); and Norihiko Ochi, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on May 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/142,175.
Application 18/142,175 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/046399, filed on Dec. 9, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-207264 (JP), filed on Dec. 15, 2020; and application No. 2021-172315 (JP), filed on Oct. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0266695 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 15/08 (2006.01); B65H 45/04 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0822 (2013.01) [B65H 45/04 (2013.01); G03G 15/5008 (2013.01); G03G 2215/018 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An accommodating container for accommodating powder, the accommodating container comprising:
a flexible pouch including a bottom portion and a side portion extending from the bottom portion so as to form an opening; and
a communicating member disposed inside the side portion on a side of the opening and provided with a communicating portion communicating between inside and outside of the pouch,
wherein the communicating member includes an opposite surface opposing the bottom portion, and
wherein the side portion is provided with a fold forming portion forming a folding shave along an edge portion of the opposite surface of the communicating member,
wherein the communicating member is provided with a welded portion welded inside the side portion,
wherein the welded portion is provided with:
a first welded portion extending outside from a position of the edge portion in a direction along a first direction in which a crease of the folding shape extends, and
a second welded portion extending outside from a position of the edge portion in the direction along the first direction, and
wherein the first welded portion and the second welded portion are disposed at different sides of the communicating member with respect to the first direction.