CN100541346C - Toner container and gate structure thereof - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a kind of toner container, comprising: have the vessel (70) of toner escape hole (70c), the gate mechanism (71) that is used to open, close toner escape hole (70c), the control lever (72) that makes gate mechanism (71) action, control lever locked mechanism (73), locking cancel system (74) and stop mechanism (75).Under toner escape hole (70c) closing state, control lever locked mechanism (73) locking control lever (72) makes its akinesia.Along with vessel (70) is installed on image processing system, locking cancel system (74) is removed the locking of control lever locked mechanism (73) to control lever (72).Be installed on the image processing system and utilize control lever (72) to open under the state of toner escape hole (70c) at vessel (70), stop mechanism (75) to stop removable container body (70) from the image processing system.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of toner container, especially relate to the toner container that relative image processing system can carry out dismounting.In addition, the invention still further relates to a kind of gate structure of toner container, especially relate to the gate structure of the toner escape hole that is used to open, close the removable toner container of relative image processing system.
Background technology
In image processing systems such as duplicating machine, be provided with the toner container that is used for to the adjustment of developer complementary colors.This toner container is formed with the toner escape hole in the bottom, have the gate mechanism that is used to open, close this toner escape hole simultaneously, the relative image forming device body detachable of this toner container.In addition, be provided with toner conveying helical member in toner container inside, when driving this helical member rotation, be housed in inner toner and discharge from the toner escape hole, additional in developer.
Before this toner container is installed on the image forming device body, unloading the back from image forming device body or during in dismounting etc., do not wishing to be housed in inner toner to external leaks.Therefore, open a kind of toner container of proposition in the 2004-205587 communique the Jap.P. spy.
This toner container comprises: vessel, gate part, control lever parts and locking part with toner escape hole.And, be positioned at the control lever parts under the state of off-position, utilize the control lever parts to make the elastic of locking part produce elastic deformation, locking part is setovered to locking position.On the other hand, when being installed to vessel on the image forming device body, then locking part is displaced to locking and removes the position, allows that control assembly rotates to open position from off-position.
In the toner container that above-mentioned communique is put down in writing, be used to make the control assembly of the gate part action of opening, closing the toner escape hole, lock when image processing system is installed at toner container, when not installing, remove locking.Therefore, be unkitted under the state that is fitted on the image forming device body, can prevent that the toner escape hole from becoming open mode, can prevent that toner from leaking at toner container.
But, be installed on the image forming device body at toner container, when the toner escape hole becomes open mode,, then can cause toner to spill from the toner escape hole if toner container is unloaded from image forming device body owing to maloperation.
Summary of the invention
Technical matters to be solved by this invention is: can be with the open and close of simple structure control toner escape hole, and can prevent that the toner that maloperation causes from leaking.
According to the toner container of first aspect present invention, image processing system can carry out dismounting relatively, comprises vessel, gate mechanism, control lever, control lever locked mechanism, locking cancel system and stops mechanism.The inner toner storing of vessel, and have the toner escape hole.Gate mechanism in open, the toner escape hole of closing containers body.Control lever is supported on the vessel free to rotately, is used to make the gate mechanism action.The control lever locked mechanism is utilizing gate mechanism to close under the state of toner escape hole, and the locking control lever makes its akinesia.Along with vessel is installed on image processing system, the locking cancel system is removed the locking of control lever locked mechanism to control lever.Be installed on the image processing system and utilize control lever to make gate mechanism action and open under the state of toner escape hole at vessel, stop mechanism to unload the prevention vessel from image processing system.
In this toner container, under the state that is not installed on the image processing system, utilize gate mechanism to close the toner escape hole.Under this toner escape hole closing state, be used to make the control lever of gate mechanism action to be locked.And when toner container was installed on the image processing system, along with this is installed, the locking of control lever was disengaged.Therefore, under this state, make the gate mechanism action by the operation control lever, thereby can open the toner escape hole.Thus, the toner in the vessel can be supplied with to the image processing system side.In addition, be installed on the image processing system and utilize control lever to make gate mechanism action and open under the state of toner escape hole, stop removable container body from the image processing system at vessel.
At this, because be not installed on the image processing system at toner container, under the toner escape hole closing state, be used to make the control lever of gate mechanism action to be locked, do not move and open the toner escape hole, can prevent the toner leakage so control lever can not take place.In addition, because along with toner container is installed on image processing system, the locking of control lever is removed, so can successfully open the operation of toner escape hole.And, under the state that the toner escape hole is opened, stoping removable container body from the image processing system, thus can prevent under the state that the toner escape hole is opened, to unload vessel, thus can prevent the toner leakage.
According to the toner container of second aspect present invention, in the toner container of first aspect, the control lever locked mechanism has: be formed at control lever side first clamping part on the part of control lever; And be formed on the vessel, with control lever side first clamping part base side clamping part of buckle mutually.
At this, control lever side first clamping part and vessel side clamping part be buckle mutually, and thus, the action of control lever is locked.At this moment, can realize the control lever locked mechanism with simple structure.
Toner container according to third aspect present invention, in the toner container of second aspect, also comprise sliding gate, this sliding gate is arranged to and can be free to slide on the dismounting direction of toner container, with gate mechanism the toner escape hole is opened and closed; The locking cancel system is made of sliding gate, along with vessel is installed on image processing system, this sliding gate slides to the control lever side, thereby control lever side first clamping part is moved, and removes the buckle between control lever side first clamping part and the base side clamping part.
At this, when vessel was installed on image processing system, along with this installation, sliding gate slided to the control lever side, and this sliding gate moves control lever side first clamping part, thereby removes the buckle between control lever side first clamping part and the base side clamping part.At this moment, because utilize sliding gate to realize the cancel system that locks, so simple in structure.
Toner container according to fourth aspect present invention, in the toner container of first aspect, stop mechanism to have control lever side second clamping part, this control lever side second clamping part is formed on the part of control lever, when the toner escape hole is in open mode, with a part of buckle of image processing system, forbid removable container body from the image processing system.
At this, under the state that the toner escape hole is opened, a part of buckle of control lever side second clamping part and image processing system makes vessel not unload from image processing system thus.At this moment, because utilize the part of control lever to realize stoping mechanism, thus do not need to be used to realize stoping the particular component of mechanism, simple in structure.
According to the toner container of fifth aspect present invention, in the toner container of first aspect, the control lever locked mechanism comprises: gear, can rotate with gate mechanism and control lever linkedly around the axle rotation different with the rotating shaft of control lever; And mechanism is forbidden in the rotation of forbidding the gear rotation.
In this toner container, being provided with can be around the gear of the axle rotation different with the rotating shaft of control lever, and this gear and gate mechanism and control lever rotate linkedly.And, utilize rotation to forbid the rotation of mechanism disables gear, thereby control lever is locked.
At this, the rotation interlock of the rotation of control lever and gear, by the rotating ratio (gear ratio) that both suitably are set, thus can suitably be provided with control lever rotational angle and and the anglec of rotation of the gate mechanism of gear interlock between relation.Therefore, can be with the rotational angle of control lever, be that the angle of inclination is set as less angle, can avoid control lever to interfere miscellaneous part.
According to the toner container of sixth aspect present invention, in the toner container aspect the 5th, rotation forbids that mechanism comprises: locking board, and relative gear coaxial with gear non-rotatably installed, and has hole clipping; And projection, be arranged on the vessel, can with the hole clipping of locking board buckle mutually.
At this, by the hole clipping of locking board and the protruding buckle mutually of vessel, the rotation thereby gear is under an embargo, control lever is locked.Therefore, can realize that with simple structure rotation forbids mechanism.
Toner container according to seventh aspect present invention, in the toner container aspect the 6th, also comprise sliding gate, this sliding gate is arranged to and can be free to slide on the dismounting direction of toner container, with gate mechanism the toner escape hole is carried out open and close.And, the locking cancel system is made of sliding gate, and along with vessel is installed on image processing system, this sliding gate slides to the locking board side, make the part that is formed with hole clipping of locking board produce elastic deformation, thereby remove the buckle between hole clipping and the projection.
At this, when vessel was installed on image processing system, along with this installation, sliding gate slided to the locking board side, and this sliding gate makes locking board produce elastic deformation, removed the buckle between the projection of the hole clipping of locking board and vessel thus.At this moment, because utilize sliding gate to realize the cancel system that locks, so simple in structure.
Toner container according to eighth aspect present invention, in the toner container aspect the 5th, stop mechanism to comprise the sliding panel that slides with the rotation of control lever, this sliding panel has this clamping part, when the toner escape hole is in open mode, a part of buckle of this clamping part and image processing system is forbidden removable container body from the image processing system.
At this, under the state that the toner escape hole is opened, therefore a part of buckle of the clamping part of sliding panel and image processing system makes vessel not unload from image processing system.
Gate structure according to the toner container of ninth aspect present invention, be used to open, close the toner escape hole of the removable toner container of relative image processing system, comprise gate mechanism, control lever, control lever locked mechanism, locking cancel system and stop mechanism.Gate mechanism carries out open and close to the toner escape hole.Control lever is supported on the vessel of toner container free to rotately, is used to make the gate mechanism action.Utilizing gate mechanism to close under the state of toner escape hole, control lever locked mechanism locking control lever makes its akinesia.Along with toner container is installed on image processing system, the locking cancel system is removed the locking of control lever locked mechanism to control lever.Be installed on the image processing system and utilize control lever to make gate mechanism action and open under the state of toner escape hole at toner container, stop mechanism to stop and dismantle toner container from image processing system.
According to the gate structure of the toner container of tenth aspect present invention, in the gate structure aspect the 9th, the control lever locked mechanism comprises: be formed at control lever side first clamping part on the part of control lever; And be formed on the vessel, with control lever side first clamping part base side clamping part of buckle mutually.
The gate structure of the toner container of the tenth one side according to the present invention, in the gate structure aspect the tenth, also comprise sliding gate, this sliding gate is arranged to and can be free to slide on the dismounting direction of toner container, with gate mechanism the toner escape hole is carried out open and close.And the locking cancel system comprises sliding gate and abutting part.Abutting part is arranged on the image processing system, along with toner container is installed on image processing system with the sliding gate butt, sliding gate is slided to the control lever side, control lever side first clamping part is moved, thereby remove the buckle between control lever side first clamping part and the base side clamping part.
The gate structure of the toner container of the 12 aspect according to the present invention in the gate structure aspect the 9th, stops mechanism to comprise control lever side second clamping part and image processing system side clamping part.Control lever side second clamping part is formed on the part of control lever.Image processing system side clamping part is arranged on the image processing system, when the toner escape hole is in open mode, with control lever side second clamping part buckle mutually, forbids removable container body from the image processing system.
The gate structure of the toner container of the 13 aspect according to the present invention, in the gate structure aspect the 9th, the control lever locked mechanism comprises: gear, can rotate around the axle different with the rotating shaft of control lever, and rotate linkedly with gate mechanism and control lever; And mechanism is forbidden in the rotation of forbidding the gear rotation.
The gate structure of the toner container of the 14 aspect according to the present invention, in the gate structure aspect the 13, rotation forbids that mechanism comprises: locking board, coaxial with gear, and gear is non-rotatably installed relatively, and have hole clipping; And projection, be arranged on the vessel, can with the hole clipping of locking board buckle mutually.
The gate structure of the toner container of the 15 aspect according to the present invention, in the gate structure aspect the 14, also comprise sliding gate, this sliding gate is arranged to and can be free to slide on the dismounting direction of toner container, with gate mechanism the toner escape hole is carried out open and close.And the locking cancel system comprises sliding gate and abutting part.Abutting part is arranged on the image processing system, along with vessel is installed on image processing system with the sliding gate butt, sliding gate is slided to the locking board side, make the part that is formed with hole clipping of locking board produce elastic deformation, thereby remove the buckle between hole clipping and the projection.
The gate structure of the toner container of the 16 aspect according to the present invention in the gate structure aspect the 13, stops mechanism to comprise sliding panel and image processing system side clamping part.Sliding panel slides along with the rotation of control lever, and has clamping part.Image processing system side clamping part is arranged on the image processing system, when the toner escape hole is in open mode, with the clamping part of sliding panel buckle mutually, forbids removable container body from the image processing system.
As mentioned above, in the present invention, be the open and close of may command toner escape hole, and can prevent that the toner that maloperation causes from leaking with simple structure.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic configuration diagram according to the color printer of the embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 is the concrete sectional structure chart of toner supply device;
Fig. 3 is the front view of toner container;
Fig. 4 is vessel inside graphic of expression toner container;
Fig. 5 is the partial sectional view of toner container;
Fig. 6 is the stereographic map of rotary gate;
Fig. 7 is action graphic that is used to illustrate gate mechanism;
Fig. 8 is action graphic that is used to illustrate sliding gate;
Fig. 9 is be used to illustrate the action that stops mechanism graphic;
Figure 10 is the front view of the toner container of second embodiment; And
Figure 11 is prevention mechanism graphic that is used to illustrate the toner container of Figure 10.
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[one-piece construction]
Fig. 1 illustrates the color printer 1 that has the image processing system of toner container (tonercartridge) according to the conduct of the embodiment of the invention.This Fig. 1 still is used to represent the mode chart of the configuration of each inscape, omits the concrete structure that each several part is shown.
This color printer 1 is connected in not shown computing machine etc., is a kind of device that can go up the printing color image according to the image information that transports from computing machine etc. at paper (recording medium).In addition, in Fig. 1, the right side of this color printer 1 is the side that the operator operates, below with the right side of installing among Fig. 1 as the outside, with the left side as the inboard.
Color printer 1 comprises photosensitive drums 2, rotary developing device 3, the laser cell 4 as exposure device, toner resettlement section 5, toner supply device 6, intermediate transfer belt 7, secondary transfer roller 8 and fixing device 9.
Rotary developing device 3 utilizes versicolor toner to make the latent electrostatic image developing that forms on the photosensitive drums 2, is arranged to: with photosensitive drums 2 adjacency, and be centered close to the position contour substantially with the center of photosensitive drums 2.This rotary developing device 3 comprises the toner of rotating frame 15 and corresponding four kinds of colors and is provided with and is supported on four developers 16 on the rotating frame 15.Rotating frame 15 drum for rotating freely around axle with the shaft parallel of photosensitive drums 2, and make its rotation by the not shown driving mechanism that comprises motor and gear.In addition, rotating frame 15 has that the spacing frame that is radial extension by the center from rotating shaft along the circumferential direction carries out the quartern and four zones forming dispose and yellow, cyan, magenta, the corresponding developer 16 of four kinds of toner colors of black on each zone.
The structure of each developer 16 is basic identical, and be respectively arranged with can be with the developer roll of photosensitive drums 2 relative configurations, stir agitating roller that toner uses etc.At this, in this color printer 1, the toner resettlement section 5 that comprises toner container was arranged with developer in 16 minutes, therefore, the toner receiving space of the developer of present embodiment self is little, compare with the device that has the toner resettlement section in developer inside, developer 16 self can be realized miniaturization.
Toner resettlement section 5 is the parts that are used to accommodate the toner of supplying with to each developer 16 of rotary developing device 3, and it is configured in photosensitive drums 2 tops, and is positioned at a side (the device outside) relative with laser cell 4.This toner resettlement section 5 comprises the toner container of accommodating the yellow tone agent, the toner container of accommodating the cyan toner, the toner container of accommodating the magenta adjustment and the toner container of accommodating black toner that disposes side by side along left and right directions (direction vertical with the paper of Fig. 1).In addition, the structure about toner container will be described in detail in the back.
Intermediate transfer belt 7 is used for formed versicolor toner image on the transfer printing photosensitive drums successively 2, and it is configured in the below of photosensitive drums 2 and toner resettlement section 5.This intermediate transfer belt 7 is entangled between the driven roller 35 and driven voller 36 of relative configuration.In addition, the part relative with photosensitive drums 2 of intermediate transfer belt 7 constitutes: contact with photosensitive drums 2 by a pair of transfer roll 37a, a 37b.And, this driven voller 36 by spring 38 to pressing away from driven roller 35 lateral deviations, thereby apply predetermined tension force in the centre on 7.In addition, primary transfer roller 37a, 37b closely are arranged on photosensitive drums 2 belows mutually, and thus, the preset range of transfer belt 7 contacts with photosensitive drums 2.
In addition, in the device inboard of driven roller 35, and below rotary developing device 3, be provided with the band cleaning device 40 that is used to clean intermediate transfer belt 7.This band cleaning device 40 comprises: hairbrush 41, be arranged on the position relative with driven roller 35, and with the surperficial sliding contact of intermediate transfer belt 7; Clearer 42 is configured in hairbrush 41 tops, and contacts with hairbrush 41; Scraper plate 43 is configured to front end and contacts with the surface of clearer 42; And the recovery spiral pipe 44 that below scraper plate 43, disposes side by side.
The image that secondary transfer roller 8 is used for being transferred on the intermediate transfer belt 7 is transferred to the paper that transports, and it is configured in driven roller 35 belows and relative with driven roller 35.And, on this secondary transfer roller 8, utilize not shown voltage bringing device paper to be applied the bias voltage that is used for transferred image.
Fixing device 9 is used for the toner fusion photographic fixing that will be transferred on the paper, its configuration rotary developing device 3 belows and be positioned at the device inboard.This fixing device 9 has the warm-up mill 9a of internal heater and is crimped on the backer roll 9b of warm-up mill 9a, and clamping between two rollers, conveyance of sheets.
In this printer 1, the device upper face, be laser cell 4, toner supply device 6 and toner resettlement section 5 above be formed with discharge portion 50, be used to carry the paper that has formed image.This discharge portion 50 comprise laser cell 4 sides (device inboard) minimum, along with the curved face part that raises gradually near toner resettlement section 5 sides (the device outside) and with this curved face part continuously and be positioned at the planar portions of 5 tops, toner resettlement section.
Be provided with paper feeding cassette 52 in bottom of device, the loading plate that it has bearing paper is used to take in paper.And, send side end (right-hand end among Fig. 1) at the paper of this paper feeding cassette 52 and be provided with the sheet feed section (paper unloading part) 51 that is used for sending paper from paper feeding cassette 52.This sheet feed section 51 comprises: preceding conveying roller 53 is used to take out the paper on the loading plate; And prevent repetition conveying mechanism 54 to what constitute by roller, be used for paper one by one passed out to and carry the road.And paper feeding cassette 52 can be pulled out to the transport direction of paper, i.e. the device outside.
Between sheet feed section 51 and discharge portion 50, be provided with the delivery section that is used for conveyance of sheets.Delivery section comprise from sheet feed section 51 to secondary transfer roller 8 first carry road 55, from secondary transfer roller 8 to fixing device 9 second carry road 56 and from fixing device 9 to discharge portion 50 the 3rd carry road 57.In addition, be provided with disengaging pawl 58 in the outlet of fixing device 9, this disengaging pawl 58 and first carry road 55 midway between be provided with and be used for sending paper back to first and carry returning of road 55 to carry road 59.
First carries road 55 to comprise: crooked road 55a, the paper that is used for sending from paper feeding cassette 52 carry and make throughput direction to reverse upward; And straight line path 55b from this bending road 55a to secondary transfer roller 8.The guide plate of these conveying route guiding and conveyance of sheets and roller are to formation, and the precalculated position is provided with the sensor that is used to detect paper.In addition, on straight line path 55b, also dispose the contraposition roller of the time of delivery that is used to control paper to 60.
Second carries road 56 roughly to form linearity, by the guide plate of guiding and conveyance of sheets and roller to constituting.In addition, carry the precalculated position on road to be provided with the sensor that is used to detect paper.
The 3rd conveying road 57 has the vertical conveying road in the conveyance direction downstream side formation of disengaging pawl 58.That is, paper is generally perpendicularly carried towards the top, and is expelled to discharge portion 50 through after the disengaging pawl 58.The 3rd carries road 57 also with above-mentioned same, by the guide plate of guiding and conveyance of sheets and roller to constituting.
Returning and carrying road 59 is to carry road 57 to diverge in the part that is provided with disengaging pawl 58 downwards from the 3rd, fixing device 9, second carry road 56, secondary transfer roller 8 and contraposition roller to 60 below through again towards above the conveying road, and 60 throughput direction upstream side is converged at the first contraposition roller of carrying road 55.That is, this returns the paper of carrying road 59 to be arranged on first to carry the straight line path 55b and second on road 55 to carry between the above-below direction of road 56 and paper feeding cassette 52, be used for passing through fixing device 9 and returns to the contraposition roller that the is configured in secondary transfer roller 8 upstream sides conveying road to 60 more upstream side.This returns carries road 59 also with above-mentioned same, and to constituting, and the precalculated position is provided with the sensor that is used to detect paper by the guide plate of guiding and conveyance of sheets and roller.
In addition, disposing manual feed tray 65 below the toner resettlement section 5 and above paper feeding cassette 52, and making the sidewall in its constituent apparatus outside.These manual feed tray 65 lower ends are carried first and freely are rotated near the crooked road 55a on road 55 supportedly (freely openable), and activity supporting point 65a that rotates on it are swung to outside the device.Like this, under the state of opening manual feed tray 65, can be on manual feed tray 65 bearing paper, and this paper offered first carry the crooked road 55a on road 55.
[toner container]
At this, because the basic structure of each toner container (toner cartridge) is identical, so the toner container 5b that accommodates black toner is elaborated below with reference to the later accompanying drawing of Fig. 3.
The body of the relative color printer 1 of this toner container 5b is slided towards general horizontal direction, thereby can carry out dismounting.And this toner container 5b comprises: the vessel 70 of inner toner storing; Gate mechanism 71; Be used to make the control lever 72 of gate mechanism 71 actions; Locking control lever 72 makes the control lever locked mechanism 73 of its akinesia; Remove the locking cancel system 74 (Fig. 8) of the locking of 73 pairs of control levers 72 of control lever locked mechanism; And prevention mechanism 75 (Fig. 9).
＜vessel 〉
As Fig. 3 and unloaded the shown in Figure 4 of top cap, vessel 70 be a box-shaped container, comprising: the cross section of bottom surface forms semicircular resettlement section 70a and at the depth ratio resettlement section 70a shallow additional 70b of portion of the sidepiece formation of resettlement section 70a.In addition, though not shown, in the 70a of resettlement section, be provided with the toner mixing component, and in the additional 70b of portion, be provided with toner conveying helical member.And, be provided with the toner escape hole 70c that is used for supplying with toner to developing apparatus 16 sides in the additional 70b of portion bottom.In addition, shown in the local part of amplifying and decomposing among Fig. 3, between resettlement section 70a and the additional 70b of portion, be formed with and see recessed upward groove 70d from the outside of vessel 70.As hereinafter described, this groove 70d plays a role as vessel side clamping part.
＜gate mechanism 〉
Gate mechanism 71 be used to open, the mechanism of the toner escape hole 70c of closing containers body 70, as Fig. 5 and shown in Figure 6, it has rotary gate 80.This rotary gate 80 comprises: the bottom cooperates the bottom shape that replenishes the 70b of portion to form the circular 80a of gate portion and round flange 80b, the 80c of both sides.The upside of the 80a of gate portion roughly half part is open, is formed with gate opening 80d on the position corresponding with toner escape hole 70c of bottom.The aperture area of this gate opening 80d is preferably identical with toner escape hole 70c or bigger slightly than it.And this rotary gate 80 can be supported on with rotating freely and replenish on the 70b of portion, is provided with the seal member 81 that is used to prevent the toner leakage between the upper surface of rotary gate 80 and the additional 70b of portion.In this structure, make rotary gate 80 rotations, shown in Fig. 7 (a), when the gate opening 80d of rotary gate 80 is consistent with the toner escape hole 70c of vessel 70, toner escape hole 70c becomes open mode (gate mechanism open mode), shown in Fig. 7 (b), when staggering in both angle positions, toner escape hole 70c becomes closed condition (gate mechanism closed condition).
＜control lever 〉
As shown in Figure 5, control lever 72 is supported on the side (being specially the side that replenishes the 70b of portion) in the device outside of vessel 70 free to rotately, comprising: cylindric support portion 72a, the operating portion 72b that extends to form in the axial one distolateral direction radially of support portion 72a and prevention clamping part (the control lever side second clamping part) 72c that extends to form along a side opposite with operating portion 72b.And, in axial another distolateral hole that is inserted on the flange 80b that is formed at rotary gate 80 of support portion 72a, and can not connect with the relative rotation.In addition, as shown in Figure 3, be formed with the 72d of elastic deformation portion continuously with operating portion 72b.The 72d of this elastic deformation portion extends to form along a side opposite with operating portion 72b at the outer circumferential side of support portion 72a.The 72d of this elastic deformation portion forms elongated band shape, so by in its lower end side effect axial force, can make it produce elastic deformation at an easy rate.And, be formed with in this elastic deformation portion 72d bottom to side-prominent projection (the control lever side first clamping part) 72e of vessel 70.This projection 72e can fasten with groove (base side clamping part) 70d of vessel 70 sides, and at the 72d of elastic deformation portion when producing the scheduled volume distortion away from a side of vessel 70, then remove engaging to groove 70d.In addition, be provided with at the outer circumferential side of control lever 72 and between the side wall inner surface of the flange 80b of rotary gate 80 and vessel 70 and be used to the seal member 82 that prevents that toner from leaking.In addition, the central part of control lever 72 is formed with through hole 72f, and embedding in this through hole 72f has lid 83.
＜control lever locked mechanism 〉
In said structure, as shown in Figure 3, rotate to counter clockwise direction by control lever 72, thus, rotary gate 80 becomes the attitude shown in Fig. 7 (b), gate mechanism 71 is closed, and engages with the groove 70d of vessel 70 at the protruding 72e of this state lower control arm 72, and control lever 72 is locked the state that can not move.That is, constitute control lever locked mechanism 73 by protruding 72e and groove 70d.
＜locking cancel system 〉
As shown in Figure 7, be formed with laterally projecting sliding guide piece 85 in the additional 70b of the portion bottom of vessel 70.And being free to slide the ground buckle on this sliding guide piece 85 has sliding gate 86.The lower surface sealing of sliding gate 86, upper surface open simultaneously.And, on the part of upper surface, the outstanding to the inside scheduled volume from both sides and form guide part 86a, this guide part 86a is buckled on the sliding guide piece 85 with being free to slide.In addition, as shown in Figure 3, on the part of sliding gate 86, be formed with the outstanding upward 86b of pushing portion.The upper end of the 86b of this pushing portion is arranged on and is formed on the contour position of protruding 72e on the 72d of elastic deformation portion of control lever 72.
On the other hand, as shown in Figure 8, in color printer 1 side and below toner container 5b, be formed with stage portion 87.This stage portion 87 is arranged to concern as upper/lower positions: when dismounting toner container 5b, do not contact with toner container 5b itself, and with sliding gate 86 butts.
In said structure, though concrete structure will be described in detail in the back, but, when being assembled to toner container 5b on the color printer 1, along with this assembly manipulation, sliding gate 86 slides, and makes the 72d of elastic deformation portion of control lever 72 produce elastic deformation, and the engaging of 72 pairs of vessels 70 of control lever is disengaged.That is, the action of control lever 72 locking is disengaged.
＜prevention mechanism 〉
As shown in Figure 9, on the end in the device of color printer 1 outside, be assembled to the precalculated position on the corresponding position of the control lever 72 of toner container 5b on be formed with device side and stop clamping part 88.This device side stops clamping part 88 tops to have grooving (image processing system side clamping part) 88a, be configured to: to clockwise direction rotation control rod 72, when making gate mechanism 71 become open mode, the prevention clamping part 72c of control lever 72 engages with this grooving 88a.
Therefore, be assemblied on the precalculated position and utilize gate mechanism 71 to open under the state of toner escape hole 70c at toner container, because the prevention clamping part 72c of control lever 72 and device side stop the grooving 88a of clamping part 88 to fasten, take out toner container thereby stop.
[image forms action]
Then image is formed action and carry out simple declaration.At first, give the color printer energized, various parameters are carried out initialization, carry out the initial settings such as temperature of setting photographic fixing portion.And from being connected in the input image datas such as computing machine of this printer, beginning is printed in indication, forms action so carry out as hypograph.In addition, form in the action at this image, toner supply pipe 25 moves to the yielding position of top.
At first, utilize charging roller 10 to make photosensitive drums 2 charged.Then, utilize 4 pairs of these photosensitive drums 2 of laser cell to carry out the scanning corresponding, exposure, thereby on photosensitive drums 2, form electrostatic latent image with view data.Then, rotary developing device 3 is rotated, and the developer 16 of corresponding color is relative with photosensitive drums 2.Under this state, the electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive drums 2 is developed by the toner of corresponding color.Image after the development is transferred on the intermediate transfer belt 7.By every kind of color is all repeated above action successively, thereby on intermediate transfer belt 7, form full-color image.In addition, remain in residual toner on the photosensitive drums 2 etc. and clean, in not shown useless toner container, go out of use by drum cleaning device 11.
On the other hand, in sheet feed section 51, by preceding conveying roller 53 and prevent that repetition conveying mechanism 54 from rubbing a piece of paper and opening from paper feeding cassette 52, carry road 55 to be delivered to the contraposition roller to 60 by first.Then, paper is treated suitably constantly to carry forming corresponding to the image on the intermediate transfer belt 7 to 60 from the contraposition roller, and is directed to secondary transfer roller 8.Secondary transfer roller 8 contacts with intermediate transfer belt 7, utilizes the transfer bias that is applied on the secondary transfer roller 8, and the full-color image that forms on the intermediate transfer belt 7 is transferred on the paper.This paper carries road 56 to guide to fixing device 9 by second, utilizes this fixing device 9 to heat, pressurize, and makes image photographic fixing on paper.And, when printing, guide to the 3rd by disengaging pawl 58 and carry road 57 for single face, be expelled to discharge portion 50 again.
In addition, when duplex printing, the paper that has passed through fixing device 9 utilizes disengaging pawl 58 to be transported to the 3rd and carries 57 rear flank, road, when the process disengaging pawl 58 of paper rear end, carry out reverse conveying, guide to return and carry road 59 sides, carry road 59 to be back to the first conveying road 55 again by returning.Being back to first carries the paper on road 55 at the contraposition roller 60 places to be had a break.And, by with the same action of above-mentioned action after forming the image of rear side on the intermediate transfer belt 7, treat suitably constantly to be delivered to secondary transfer roller 8 sides at the paper that the contraposition roller is waited on to 60.Carry out and above-mentioned same action then, guide to the 3rd by disengaging pawl 58 and carry road 57 sides and be expelled to discharge portion 50.
[toner is supplied with action]
When developer 16 is supplied with toner, toner supply pipe 25 is moved downwards and be positioned at and supply with the position.That is, when driving not shown motor, make pinion wheel 33 rotations by gear, thus, the toner supply pipe 25 that is fixed with tooth bar 32 moves downwards.On the other hand, 5 supply with toner to toner supply pipe 25 sides from the toner resettlement section by delivery pipe 26.And the front end of toner supply pipe 25 passes the toner supply port and enters into developer 16 inside.When this toner supply pipe 25 is mobile downwards, constitute the relative inner cylinder portion rotation of urceolus portion of toner supply pipe 25, enter into moment of developer 16 inside at the front end of toner supply pipe 25, the opening of urceolus portion is consistent with the opening of inner cylinder portion.That is, gate mechanism is open, and the toner of toner supply pipe 25 inside is to developer 16 internal feeds.
[when toner container not being installed]
Be not assembled at toner container under the state on the device body of color printer 1, as shown in Figure 3, control lever 72 is positioned at the closing gate position.Under this state, rotary gate 80 is positioned at the angle position shown in Fig. 7 (b), and the gate opening 80d and the toner escape hole 70c of rotary gate 80 are inconsistent.In addition, sliding gate 86 also is configured on the position of capping toner escape hole 70c, therefore, can prevent that toner from leaking.And under this state, the protruding 72e that is formed on the 72d of elastic deformation portion of control lever 72 engages with the groove 70d of vessel 70, and therefore, control lever 72 rotation that is under an embargo can not be moved.Therefore, even conflicts such as the operating portion 72b of control lever 72 and miscellaneous parts, control lever 72 also can not rotate, and can prevent that control lever 72 moves and makes gate mechanism 71 become open mode unintentionally.
[when toner container is installed]
When being assembled to toner container on the device body, along with this assembly manipulation, sliding gate 86 and stage portion 87 butts, sliding gate 86 relatively moves to the device outside.Thus, as shown in Figure 8, sliding gate 86 begins to move from the position of toner escape hole 70c.And the end of sliding gate 86 pushes the protruding 72e of the 72d of elastic deformation portion of control lever 72 laterally.So the 72d of elastic deformation portion produces elastic deformation, protruding 72e breaks away from from groove 70d.Under this state, can carry out rotating operation to control lever 72.Therefore, the operator makes it rotate to clockwise direction by under this state control lever 72 being operated, thereby makes rotary gate 80 rotations, makes it be in the angle position shown in Fig. 7 (a), thereby can make gate mechanism 71 be in open mode.At this moment, supply with toner from toner container to the developer side.
On the other hand, to clockwise direction rotation control rod 72, when making gate mechanism 71 be in open mode, the prevention clamping part 72c of control lever 72 stops the grooving 88a of clamping part 88 to engage with device side.At this moment, utilize the prevention clamping part 72c of control lever 72 and device side to stop engaging between the grooving 88a of clamping part 88, can stop the taking-up toner container.Therefore, can prevent from when gate mechanism 71 is in open mode, from device body, to take out toner container, thereby can prevent that toner from leaking.
In addition, from device body dismounting toner container the time, need be to counter clockwise direction rotation control rod 72, the prevention clamping part 72c that removes control lever 72 stops the engaging of the grooving 88a of clamping part 88 to device side.Owing to removed the two engaging, rotary gate 80 rotations are in the angle position shown in Fig. 7 (b), and gate mechanism 71 becomes closed condition.Therefore, from device body dismounting toner container the time, can prevent that toner from leaking from toner escape hole 70c.
(2) second embodiment
Then, the later accompanying drawing of Figure 10 is represented second embodiment.In this second embodiment, only the toner container and first embodiment are different, and other structures are all identical, thus below only toner container is illustrated.
[toner container]
＜toner container integral body 〉
At this, because the basic structure of each toner container is identical, so the toner container 105b that accommodates black toner is elaborated below with reference to the later accompanying drawing of Figure 10.
The body of the relative color printer 1 of this toner container 105b is slided on general horizontal direction, thereby can carry out dismounting.And this toner container 105b comprises: the vessel 170 of inner toner storing; Gate mechanism; Be used to make the control lever 172 of gate mechanism action; Locking control lever 172 makes the control lever locked mechanism 173 of its akinesia; Remove the locking cancel system 174 of the locking of 173 pairs of control levers 172 of control lever locked mechanism; And prevention mechanism 175.In addition, about gate mechanism, since identical with above-mentioned first embodiment, so omit its detailed description at this.
＜vessel 〉
In addition, though omitted in Figure 10, (outside the paper for control lever 172 grades among Figure 10) is provided with the gear that is used to drive toner mixing component and toner conveying usefulness helical member in vessel 170 outsides.
＜control lever 〉
＜control lever locked mechanism 〉
Control lever locked mechanism 173 comprises: locking board 180 is supported on the side in the device outside of the additional 170b of portion of vessel 170 with rotating freely; Be formed at the projection 181 of vessel 170 sides; And the gear 182 of locking and releasing locking usefulness.
Locking board 180 is plates of circular, and its part is outwards all side-prominent.And, on its periphery teat, be formed with rectangle hole clipping 180a (with reference to Figure 10 (b)).Roughly half part that is formed with periphery teat one side of locking board 180 is thinner than other parts, is easy to elastic deformation.
In addition, projection 181 is arranged on the side in the device outside of the additional 170b of portion of vessel 170 outstanding laterally, and can be snapped in the hole clipping 180a of locking board 180.Gear 182 is positioned at locking board 180 outsides, and locking board 180 is non-rotatably installed relatively, and with locking board 180 rotations.And this gear 182 meshes with the first gear part 172d of control lever 172.In addition, this gear 182 is connected with the rotary gate 80 (with reference to Fig. 5 and Fig. 6) that constitutes gate mechanism.Therefore, by gear 182 rotations, can make rotary gate 80 rotations, identical with first embodiment, gate mechanism can be obtained open mode and closed condition (with reference to Fig. 7 (a) and Fig. 7 (b)).
In said structure, shown in Figure 10 (a), under the state that counterclockwise rotates, the projection 181 of the hole clipping 180a of locking board 180 and vessel 170 is buckle mutually at control lever 172.Therefore, the rotation that is under an embargo of locking board 180 and gear 182 has the rotation that also is under an embargo of control lever 172 with the first gear part 172d of this gear 182 engagements, is in locking condition.
＜locking cancel system 〉
Identical with first embodiment, in the additional 170b of the portion bottom of vessel 170 sliding gate 186 is installed with being free to slide.Though the concrete shape of sliding gate 186 and the sliding gate of first embodiment are different, basic structure is identical, its detailed description of Therefore, omited.
In addition, the structure of color printer 1 side is identical with first embodiment.That is, as shown in Figure 8, be formed with stage portion 87 below toner container 105b, stage portion 87 is arranged to concern as upper/lower positions: when dismounting toner container 105b, do not contact with toner container 105b itself, and with sliding gate 186 butts.
＜prevention mechanism 〉
Figure 11 be control lever 172 from the container base side see graphic, as shown in figure 11, the second gear part 172e and sliding panel 190 that the back side (vessel side) that stops mechanism 175 to be included in control lever 172 forms.
The second gear part 172e forms on a part of periphery of cylindrical portion 172f at center.The second gear part 172e and cylindrical portion 172f are integrally formed with control lever 172.
Sliding panel 190 is the plates that have opening 190a in substantial middle portion, is configured between control lever 172 and the vessel 170.In addition, this sliding panel 190 moves freely on above-below direction along the sliding guide piece 170c that forms on the wall of vessel 170 (with reference to Figure 10 (b)).In the opening 190a of sliding panel 190, insert the cylindrical portion 172f and the second gear part 172e of control lever 172, on the edge part of opening 190a and the part relative, be formed with linearity gear part (tooth bar) 190b longitudinally with the second gear part 172e.In addition, be formed with outstanding prevention clamping part 190c downwards in sliding panel 190 lower ends and in gear 182 sides.
On the other hand, identical with first embodiment (with reference to Fig. 9), on the end in the device of color printer 1 outside, be assembled to the precalculated position on the corresponding position of the control lever 172 of toner container 105b on be formed with device side and stop clamping part 88.This device side stops the structure and first embodiment of clamping part 88 identical, and top has grooving (image processing system side clamping part) 88a.
[when toner container not being installed]
Be not assembled at toner container under the state on the device body of color printer 1, shown in Figure 10 (a), control lever 172 is positioned at the closing gate position.Under this state, rotary gate 80 is positioned at the angle position shown in Fig. 7 (b), and the gate opening 80d and the toner escape hole of rotary gate 80 are inconsistent.In addition, sliding gate 186 also is configured on the position of capping toner escape hole, therefore, can prevent that toner from leaking.And under this state, the projection 181 of vessel side is snapped in the hole clipping 180a of locking board 180, therefore, locking board 180, gear 182 and with the rotation that is under an embargo of the control lever 172 of these gear 182 engagements, can not move.Therefore, even conflicts such as the operating portion 172b of control lever 172 and miscellaneous parts, control lever 172 also can not rotate, and can prevent that control lever 172 moves and makes gate mechanism become open mode unintentionally.
[when toner container is installed]
When being assembled to toner container on the device body, along with this assembly manipulation, sliding gate 186 and stage portion 87 butts, sliding gate 186 relatively moves to the device outside.Thus, sliding gate 186 begins to move from the position of toner escape hole, and the end of sliding gate 186 pushes the periphery teat of locking board 180 laterally.So the periphery teat of locking board 180 produces elastic deformation in the outside, the buckle of the hole clipping 180a of locking board 180 and projection 181 is disengaged.At this moment, be in the state of allowing locking board 180 and gear 182 rotations, can operate control lever 172.Therefore, under this state, control lever 172 operated that by the operator it is rotated to clockwise direction, thereby make rotary gate 80 rotations, be positioned at the angle position shown in Fig. 7 (a), thereby can make gate mechanism become open mode.At this moment, supply with toner from toner container to the developer side.
On the other hand, to clockwise direction rotation control rod 172, when making gate mechanism be in open mode, the second gear part 172e of control lever 172 and the tooth bar 190b of sliding panel 190 engagement is so along with the rotating operation of control lever 172, sliding panel 190 is mobile downwards.And the prevention clamping part 190c of sliding panel 190 stops the grooving 88a of clamping part 88 to engage with device side.At this moment, because the prevention clamping part 190c of sliding panel 190 stops the grooving 88a of clamping part 88 to engage with device side, take out toner container thereby stop.Therefore, can prevent from when gate mechanism is in open mode, to take out toner container, thereby can prevent that toner from leaking from device body.
In addition, from device body dismounting toner container the time, to counter clockwise direction rotation control rod 172, along with this rotating operation, sliding panel 190 rises, and the prevention clamping part 190c that removes sliding panel 190 stops the engaging of the grooving 88a of clamping part 88 to device side.
Along with the operation of removing this both engaging, gear 182 rotations, thus, rotary gate 80 rotations are in the angle position shown in Fig. 7 (b), and gate mechanism is a closed condition.Therefore, from device body dismounting toner container the time, can prevent that toner from leaking from the toner escape hole.
The above is the preferred embodiments of the present invention only, is not limited to the present invention.In the above-described embodiments, the present invention can have various changes and variation.Within the spirit and principles in the present invention all, any modification of being done, be equal to replacement, improvement etc., all should be included within protection scope of the present invention.
Symbol description
1 color printer, 5 toner resettlement sections
5b toner container 70,170 vessels
71 gate mechanisms 72,172 control levers
72c stops clamping part (control lever side second clamping part)
72e projection (control lever side first clamping part)
73,173 locked mechanisms 74,174 locking cancel systems
75,175 stop mechanism's 80 rotary gates
86,186 sliding gates, 87 stage portion
88 device sides stop clamping part
88a grooving (image processing system side clamping part)
Claims (8)
1. toner container, image processing system can carry out dismounting relatively, it is characterized in that comprising:
Vessel, inner toner storing, and have the toner escape hole;
Gate mechanism is used to open, close the toner escape hole of described vessel;
Control lever is supported on the described vessel free to rotately, is used to make described gate mechanism action;
The control lever locked mechanism is utilizing described gate mechanism to close under the state of described toner escape hole, and the described control lever that locks makes its akinesia;
The locking cancel system along with described vessel is installed, is removed the locking of described control lever locked mechanism to described control lever on described image processing system; And
Stop mechanism, be installed on the described image processing system and utilize described control lever to make described gate mechanism action and open under the state of described toner escape hole, stop from the described vessel of described image processing system dismounting at described vessel,
Wherein, described control lever locked mechanism comprises: gear, can rotate around the axle different with the rotating shaft of described control lever, and rotate linkedly with described gate mechanism and described control lever; And mechanism is forbidden in the rotation of forbidding described gear rotation.
2. toner container according to claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described rotation forbids that mechanism comprises: locking board, and it is non-rotatable to be mounted to coaxial with described gear and relative described gear, and has hole clipping; And projection, be arranged on the described vessel, can with the hole clipping of described locking board buckle mutually.
3. toner container according to claim 2 is characterized in that:
Also comprise sliding gate, this sliding gate is arranged to and can be free to slide on the dismounting direction of toner container, opens, closes described toner escape hole with described gate mechanism;
Described locking cancel system is made of described sliding gate, along with described vessel is installed on described image processing system, described sliding gate slides to described locking board side, make the part that is formed with hole clipping of described locking board produce elastic deformation, remove the buckle between described hole clipping and the described projection.
4. toner container according to claim 1 is characterized in that:
Described prevention mechanism comprises the sliding panel that slides with the rotation of described control lever, this sliding panel has clamping part, when described toner escape hole is in open mode, a part of buckle of this clamping part and described image processing system is forbidden from the described vessel of described image processing system dismounting.
5. the gate structure of a toner container is used to open, close the toner escape hole of the removable toner container of relative image processing system, it is characterized in that comprising:
Gate mechanism is used to open, closes described toner escape hole;
Control lever is supported on the vessel of described toner container free to rotately, is used to make described gate mechanism action;
The control lever locked mechanism is utilizing described gate mechanism to close under the state of described toner escape hole, and the described control lever that locks makes its akinesia;
The locking cancel system along with described toner container is installed, is removed the locking of described control lever locked mechanism to described control lever on described image processing system; And
Stop mechanism, be installed on the described image processing system and utilize described control lever to make the action of described gate mechanism and open under the state of described toner escape hole at described toner container, prevention is from the described toner container of described image processing system dismounting
Wherein, described control lever locked mechanism comprises: gear, can rotate with described gate mechanism and described control lever linkedly around the axle rotation different with the rotating shaft of described control lever; And mechanism is forbidden in the rotation of forbidding described gear rotation.
6. the gate structure of toner container according to claim 5 is characterized in that:
Described rotation forbids that mechanism comprises: locking board, and it is non-rotatable to be mounted to coaxial with described gear and relative described gear, and has hole clipping; And projection, be arranged on the described vessel, can with the hole clipping of described locking board buckle mutually.
7. the gate structure of toner container according to claim 6 is characterized in that:
Also comprise sliding gate, this sliding gate is arranged to and can be free to slide on the dismounting direction of described toner container, opens, closes described toner escape hole with described gate mechanism;
Described locking cancel system comprises:
Described sliding gate; And
Abutting part, be arranged on the described image processing system, along with described vessel on described image processing system, install and with described sliding gate butt, described sliding gate is slided to described locking board side, make the part that is formed with hole clipping of described locking board produce elastic deformation, remove the buckle between described hole clipping and the described projection.
8. the gate structure of toner container according to claim 5 is characterized in that:
Described prevention mechanism comprises:
Sliding panel slides along with the rotation of described control lever, has clamping part;
And
Image processing system side clamping part is arranged on the described image processing system, when described toner escape hole is in open mode, with the clamping part of described sliding panel buckle mutually, forbids from the described vessel of described image processing system dismounting.
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