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Image forming apparatus and developing agent cartridge

A developer cartridge and developer technology, applied in the fields of electric recording technology using charge patterns, equipment for electric recording technology using charge patterns, electrography, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2008-01-30
BROTHER KOGYO KK
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[0018] In this case, it is difficult to provide opening and closing mechanisms for the shutter members for all the toner hoppers within the restricted arrangement space in the color laser printer.

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[0053] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

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[0055] 1. The overall composition of the color laser printer

[0056] FIG. 1 is a left sectional view showing an embodiment of a color laser printer as an example of an image forming apparatus of the present invention.

[0057] As shown in FIG. 1 , this color laser printer 1 is a lateral arrangement type tandem color laser printer in which a plurality of processing units 62 are arranged side by side in the horizontal direction. The color laser printer 1 has, in a main body casing 2 as an example of a box-shaped housing: a paper feeding unit 4 for feeding paper 3; an image forming unit 5 for forming an image on the fed paper 3; The paper discharge unit 6 is used to discharge the paper 3 on which the image is formed. The color laser printer 1 also has a reading scanner unit 7, constituting a so-called multifunction machine, which is provided...

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An image forming apparatus is described. The image forming apparatus may include: a casing; a plurality of image carriers parallelly arranged along one direction in the casing, and formed with an electrostatic latent image; a plurality of developing agent carriers opposed to the image carriers, for visualizing the electrostatic latent image by feeding a developing agent to the image carriers; and a plurality of developing agent cartridges, parallelly arranged in the one direction to be opposed to the developing agent carriers in the longitudinal direction of the developing agent carriers, and configured to be together attachable / detachable to / from the casing along the one direction, for accommodating the developing agent fed to the developing agent carriers.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims the priority of Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-202611, Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-202612 and Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-202613 filed on July 25, 2006, the entire contents of which are incorporated into this application. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus such as a color laser printer, and a developer cartridge mounted in the image forming apparatus. Background technique [0004] There is known a so-called tandem color laser printer in which a photosensitive drum for forming an electrostatic latent image, a developing roller for developing the electrostatic latent image, and a toner cartridge for accommodating toner supplied to the developing roller are combined with yellow, magenta, cyan, etc. The respective colors of green and black are arranged in multiple rows corresponding to each other. [0005] In a tandem color l...

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IPC IPC(8): G03G15/01G03G15/08
Inventor 佐藤正吾
Owner BROTHER KOGYO KK
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