CN209765270U

CN209765270U - Carbon powder box

Info

Publication number: CN209765270U
Application number: CN201920605653.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈绍华
Original assignee: Jiangxi Yibo Electronic Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Jiangxi Yibo Electronic Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-04-29
Filing date: 2019-04-29
Publication date: 2019-12-10
Anticipated expiration: 2029-04-29

Abstract

The utility model provides a toner cartridge, detachably install in the image forming device including chip contact device, toner cartridge includes: the chip assembly comprises a chip assembly and a shell, wherein the shell is used for containing carbon powder; the chip assembly comprises a guide member, a connecting member and a chip, wherein the guide member is provided with a guide limiting part, a positioning hole, an insertion hole, a first ramp and a second ramp, the first ramp and the second ramp play a role in guiding when the toner cartridge is loaded and unloaded, and the guide limiting part is oppositely arranged on the guide member and limits the direction vertical to the installation direction of the toner cartridge; the outer surface of the chip is provided with a plurality of contacts; a connecting member mounted on the guide member, the connecting member having one end connected to the chip and the other end connected to a chip contact device in the image forming apparatus. The utility model discloses, the chip installation is simple with taking out, and the difficult adhesion impurity of chip external contact has improved the accuracy of information exchange.

Description

Carbon powder box

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a cartridge for among image forming device.

background

The existing toner cartridge is generally provided with a chip on the cartridge body, and the chip is mainly used for recording basic information of the developing cartridge

The carbon powder box is suitable for the type, the printing quantity, the carbon powder reserve allowance, the service life and the like of a printer.

The chip in the toner cartridge may be in contact with a corresponding unit in the image forming device and recognized by a control unit in the image forming device. As shown in fig. 1, the prior art discloses a toner cartridge in which a chip 182 is located in a pocket formed in a housing of the toner cartridge, and after the chip 182 is mounted, it is difficult for an operator to observe whether the chip is mounted from the outside; the chip 182 of the developing cartridge is mounted in such a manner that the chip is mounted on the fixing plate 181, the fixing plate 181 is mounted to the side wall of the housing, and guide members 183 are provided at the front end of the developing cartridge pocket and in the pocket to guide the chip contact device 501 of the image forming apparatus and connect the chip 182 with the chip contact device 182 of the image forming apparatus. When the toner cartridge is mounted to the image forming apparatus, the conductive bumps 530 on the chip contact device in the image forming apparatus are in sliding contact with the chip contacts, so that the chip contacts are easily scratched, poor contact is caused during printing, data transmission between the image forming apparatus and the toner cartridge chip is affected, and the developing cartridge with the structure can cause the chip mounting and dismounting process to be complicated.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

in order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a toner cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus including a chip contact device, the chip contact device being swingable with respect to a housing of the image forming apparatus, the chip contact device including a conductive sheet, one side of the conductive sheet being provided with a conductive projection, a back side opposite to the one side of the conductive sheet being configured as a plane; the toner cartridge includes: a housing capable of containing carbon powder; a chip assembly disposed at one side of the case; when the toner cartridge is mounted to the image forming apparatus, the chip assembly is in contact with the back side of the conductive sheet.

the chip assembly includes a guide member, a connection member, and a chip, the chip surface having a plurality of contacts, the chip being mounted to one side of the case, one end of the connection member being connected to the chip, the other end of the connection member being connected to the guide member, the guide member being mounted to one side of the case and covering the chip; the guide component is provided with a guide limiting part, a boss, a positioning hole, an insertion hole, a first ramp and a second ramp; the guide limiting part protrudes outwards from the surface of the guide component and is approximately rectangular in structure.

The boss is fitted with the connecting member, and the insertion hole is for inserting the connecting member. The guide limiting part is provided with a guide inclined plane. The boss is provided with a first guide surface, a second guide surface and a support surface; the first guide surface and the second guide surface cooperate with the connecting member, and the support surface is for supporting the connecting member.

The first ramp is arranged at the front end of the connecting component and is configured as an inclined plane; the second ramp is arranged at the front end of the connecting component and is opposite to the first ramp, and the inclination of the second ramp is smaller than that of the first ramp.

The connecting member is made of a conductive material and is provided with a first electric contact part, a second electric contact part, a third electric contact part and a guide part; the first electrical contact is connected to a chip contact device in the image processing apparatus and supported by the support surface of the boss, the second and third electrical contacts are connected to the chip, and the guide portion is engaged with the first and second guide surfaces of the boss.

The utility model provides a cartridge can follow the outside and observe whether the chip is installed to can prevent to neglect the problem of adorning the chip at the production process and take place, improve the stability of cartridge work.

the utility model provides a cartridge contacts through the chip contact device contact of electrically conductive steel sheet and image forming device, and in the cartridge installation, electrically conductive arch among the image forming device can not fish tail chip contact, and image forming device and cartridge contact are good, have solved the installation of prior art cartridge, the problem of the easy fish tail of cartridge chip surface, moreover the utility model provides a cartridge's chip subassembly, the installation with take out simply.

Drawings

The invention is described in further detail below with reference to the figures and the specific embodiments

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a toner cartridge and image forming apparatus of the prior art;

Fig. 2 is a schematic structural view of a main body of the toner cartridge of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic view of the toner cartridge of the present invention assembled into an image forming apparatus;

FIG. 4 is a partially exploded schematic view of the toner cartridge of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of a connecting member in the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of the outer side of the guide member in the present invention;

Fig. 7 is a schematic view of the inner side structure of the guide member in the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a chip contact device in the image forming apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view of the back side of the chip contact device in the image forming apparatus according to the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating a process of mating a chip assembly with a chip contact arrangement in an image forming apparatus according to the present invention;

Fig. 11 is a schematic diagram of the toner cartridge of the present invention mounted to an image forming apparatus, the chip assembly cooperating with a chip contact device of the image forming apparatus.

Detailed Description

The following description and the accompanying drawings illustrate embodiments. Sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced in various ways. Portions and features of some embodiments may be included in or substituted for those of others. The following description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology used herein is for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. The use of "including," "comprising," or "having" and variations thereof herein is meant to encompass the items listed thereafter and equivalents thereof as well as additional items. Spatially relative terms, such as "outside," "inside," "above," "below," "outer," "inner," "upper," "lower," and the like, are used for ease of description to explain the positioning of one element relative to a second element, and the term "image" as used herein includes any text, graphics, or combination thereof, in printed or numerical form. Like terms refer to like elements throughout the description.

The utility model discloses a first direction is the installation direction of cartridge 15, and the second direction is the direction perpendicular with cartridge 15 installation direction.

The specific embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings:

The main structure of the toner cartridge 15 is shown in fig. 2, and the toner cartridge 15 includes a housing 18 for containing toner; a handle 16 disposed at the rear end of the compact; a side cover 1 provided at the right end of the housing 18; the guide rail 17 is formed on the side cover 1, is in a wing shape, and can be provided with another guide rail with the same structure on the left side and the opposite side of the powder box; the chip component is used for storing the related information of the toner cartridge, such as the number of printable pages, the residual amount of the carbon powder, the related information of the toner cartridge and the like; the chip assembly is used for contacting with a chip contact device 13 in an image forming device 14 to establish information communication.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of the installation of the toner cartridge 15 into the image forming device 14, during the installation process, the guide rail 17 on the toner cartridge side cover 1 is supported by a supporting member (not shown) inside the image forming device 14, the guide rail 17 is in smooth contact with the supporting member of the device inside the image forming device 14 until the whole toner cartridge 15 is completely installed into the image forming device 14, so that the installation is completed, the chip assembly is connected with the chip contact device 13 in the image forming device 14, the door cover of the image forming device 14 is closed, the printing operation is performed, the chip assembly of the toner cartridge 15 is in contact with the contact unit in the printer and information communication is realized, and relevant information in the toner cartridge 15 is recognized by the image forming device 14; when the toner cartridge 15 needs to be removed from the image forming apparatus 14 when a print job or a paper jam is completed, the user holds the handle 16, and the user removes the entire toner cartridge 15 from the inside of the printer along the guide rail 17, thereby completing the machine removal.

Figure 4 shows an exploded view of a toner cartridge chip assembly; the utility model discloses a chip subassembly includes: a chip 4, a connecting member 3 and a guide member 2. The chip 4 is formed in a substantially rectangular shape, and the surface of the chip 4 is provided with a plurality of contacts 4A, and in the present embodiment, the number of contacts 4A is four, but is not limited thereto. The chip 4 can be mounted on the chip mounting portion 1A of the side cover 1, and the chip 4 can be mounted on the chip mounting portion 1A in an adhesive manner or in other manners such as screw fixation, as long as the function of fixing the chip 4 on the chip mounting portion 1A can be realized.

Fig. 5 shows a schematic structural view of the connection member 3, the connection member 3 being made of a metallic conductive material. One end of the connecting member 3 is connected to the contact 4A of the chip and the other end is in contact with the chip contact device 13 in the image forming device 14 to point-connect the chip 4 with the chip contact device 13 in the image forming device 14. The connecting member 3 has a first electrical contact 3A, a second electrical contact 3B, a third electrical contact 3C, and guides 3D and 3E.

As shown in fig. 6 to 7, the guide member 2 of the present invention includes guide stoppers 6 and 7, a boss 12, insertion holes 9 and 5 of the connecting member 3, a positioning hole 8, and a first ramp 10. The first ramp 10 is provided at the front end of the guide member 2, configured as a slope, with respect to the a direction in which the toner cartridge 15 is mounted to the image forming device 14; the guide stoppers 6 and 7 are oppositely disposed on both sides of the boss 12, the guide stoppers 6 and 7 are protruded outwardly from the surface of the guide member 2 and are configured in a substantially rectangular shape, wherein the guide stopper 6 is further provided with a guide slope 6A. The boss 12 comprises a first guide surface 1201, a second guide surface 1202 and a support surface 1203. In the present embodiment, four bosses 12 are provided, and the number of bosses 12 is not limited to four, and may be provided in plural. An insertion hole 9 of the connecting member 3 is provided at the front end of the first guide surface 1201; the locking hole 5 of the connecting member 3 is provided at the rear end of the second guide surface 1202. The positioning hole 8 is provided at the rear end of the guide positioning portion 6 with respect to the installation direction a of the toner cartridge 15, and a plurality of positioning holes 8 may be provided, and the position thereof may be arbitrary as long as the function of positioning the guide member 2 on the side cover 1 can be achieved; in addition, a second ramp 11 is arranged on the back of the front end of the guide member 2, the second ramp 11 is arranged at the front end of the connecting member 3 and is opposite to the second ramp 11, and the slope of the second ramp 11 is smaller than that of the first ramp 10. The second ramp 11 can improve the stability of the fit between the toner cartridge 15 and the edge cover 1.

The chip assembly of the utility model is installed in the following sequence that the chip 4 is installed in the chip installation part 1A on the side cover 1; then the connecting member 3 is installed into the guide member 2; the assembled connecting member 3 and guide member 2 are then mounted to the edge cover 1. During the chip component mounting process; the second contact portion 3B and the third contact portion 3C in the connection member 3 can pass through the insertion holes 5 and 9 on the connection member, respectively, the first electrical contact portion 3A is supported by the support surface 1203 of the boss 12, the guide portions 3D and 3E on the connection member 3 can be supported by the first guide surface 1201 and the second guide surface 1202 of the boss 12, respectively, and the second electrical contact portion 3B and the third electrical contact portion 3C in the connection member 3 are brought into contact with the contact 4A on the chip and abut on the contact 4A when the connection member 3 and the guide member 2 are mounted to the edge cover 1, respectively.

The process of installing the toner cartridge of the present invention into the image forming apparatus will be described with reference to fig. 8 to 11.

The toner cartridge 15 of the present invention is mountable to the image forming apparatus 14 having the chip contact device 13 shown in fig. 8 to 9, and the chip contact device 13 is capable of swinging at a certain angle relative to the C direction shown in fig. 8 of the main body of the image forming apparatus 14 after being acted by an external force. The chip contact device 13 includes a housing 13D, a conductive plate 13C supported by the housing 13D, a conductive protrusion 13A disposed on one surface of the conductive plate 13C, a back surface of the conductive plate 13C is 13B, and a corresponding receiving groove (not shown) disposed in the chip contact device 13 receives the conductive plate 13C, and the conductive plate 13C can move in the direction B shown in fig. 8 when receiving an external force.

As shown in fig. 10, in mounting the toner cartridge 15 to the image forming device 14, the first ramp 10 is first brought into contact with the housing 13D of the chip contact device, the chip assembly guided to the toner cartridge is mounted to the image forming device 14, and then the guide positioning portions 6 and 7 are brought into contact with both ends of the housing 13D and define the housing 13D in the mounting direction so that the housing 13D does not move in the second direction. Then the first guide surfaces 1201 of the bosses 12 are guidingly brought into contact with the back surface 13B of the conductive sheet, and then the support surfaces 1203 abut against the back surface 13B of the conductive sheet, and in this embodiment, the support surfaces 1203 project from the guide member plane 2a so as to be able to be held in close contact with the back surface 13B of the conductive sheet.

As shown in fig. 11, which shows a state after the toner cartridge 15 is in contact with the chip contact device 13, the guide stoppers 6 and 7 limit the chip contact device 13 in the second direction shown in the drawing, and the first contact portion 3A of the connecting member 3 is in contact with the back surface 13B of the conductive sheet in the chip contact device 13 and is supported by the support surface 1203 of the boss 12, so that the toner cartridge 15 is stably in contact with the chip contact device 13 without sliding.

The utility model discloses, connecting elements 3 and image forming device 14's chip contact device 13 direct contact, but not chip 4 direct and image forming device 14's chip contact device 13 direct contact, the contact of having avoided chip 4 surface is by the electrically conductive protruding 13A fish tail in the chip contact device 13, and can protect chip 4's contact, make the difficult adhesion impurity of chip, and further, connecting elements 3 and image forming device 14 contact stability, the accuracy of information exchange between chip 4 and image forming device 14 has been improved.

The utility model provides a cartridge can observe whether the chip is installed from the outside to can prevent to neglect the problem of dress chip in process of production and take place, improved the stability of cartridge work, the above scheme of the utility model, it does not aim at exhaustively or restrict the accurate form of this application for disclosing, and according to above teaching, obviously many modifications and changes are possible. It is to be understood that the invention may be practiced otherwise than as specifically described herein without departing from the scope of the invention, which is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. a toner cartridge (15) detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus (14) including a chip contact device (13), the chip contact device (13) being swingable with respect to a frame of the image forming apparatus (14), the chip contact device (13) including a conductive sheet (13C), a conductive projection (13A) being provided on one side of the conductive sheet (13C), and a back side opposite to the one side of the conductive sheet (13C) being configured to be flat; the toner cartridge (15) includes:

A housing (18) capable of containing carbon powder;

A chip assembly disposed at one side of the case (18);

characterized in that the chip assembly is in contact with the back side of the conductive sheet (13C) when the toner cartridge (15) is mounted into the image forming apparatus (14).

2. the toner cartridge (15) according to claim 1, wherein the chip assembly includes a guide member (2), a connection member (3), and a chip (4), the chip (4) being mounted to one side of the casing (18), one end of the connection member (3) being connected to the chip (4), the other end of the connection member (3) being connected to the guide member (2); the guide member (2) is mounted to one side of the housing (18) and covers the chip (4).

3. The toner cartridge (15) according to claim 2, wherein the guide member (2) has a guide limit portion (6, 7), a boss (12), a positioning hole (8), an insertion hole (9, 5), a first ramp (10), and a second ramp (11); the guide limiting parts (6, 7) protrude outwards from the surface of the guide member (2) and are approximately rectangular in structure; the boss (12) is fitted with the connecting member (3), and the insertion holes (9, 5) are used for inserting the connecting member (3).

4. the toner cartridge (15) according to claim 3, wherein the guide stopper (6) has a guide slope (6A).

5. The toner cartridge (15) of claim 3, wherein the boss (12) has a first guide surface (1201), a second guide surface (1202), and a support surface (1203); the first guide surface (1201) and the second guide surface (1202) cooperate with the connecting member (3), and the support surface (1203) is for supporting the connecting member (3).

6. A toner cartridge (15) according to claim 3, wherein the first ramp (10) is provided at a front end of the connecting member (3) and is configured as a ramp.

7. A toner cartridge (15) according to claim 3, wherein the second ramp (11) is provided at a front end of the connecting member (3) so as to be disposed opposite to the first ramp (10), and a slope of the second ramp (11) is smaller than a slope of the first ramp (10).

8. A toner cartridge (15) according to claim 3, wherein the connecting member (3) is made of an electrically conductive material, having a first electrical contact (3A), a second electrical contact (3B), a third electrical contact (3C), a guide (3D, 3E); the first electrical contact (3A) is connected to a chip contact device (13) in the image forming device (14), the second (3B) and third (3C) electrical contacts are connected to the chip (4), and the guides (3D, 3E) cooperate with first (1201) and second (1202) guide surfaces of the boss (12).

9. the toner cartridge (15) according to claim 2, wherein the chip (4) surface has a plurality of contacts (4A).