CN216434674U

CN216434674U - Powder adding box

Info

Publication number: CN216434674U
Application number: CN202122991290.9U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 韦兰艳; 钟宝生
Original assignee: Ninestar Corp
Current assignee: Ninestar Corp
Priority date: 2021-01-04
Filing date: 2021-12-01
Publication date: 2022-05-03
Anticipated expiration: 2031-12-01

Abstract

The utility model discloses a powder adding box, include: a main body having a developer chamber accommodating a developer and a developer outlet; a pushing member movable in a direction close to the developer outlet to discharge the developer in the main body from the developer outlet; the powder adding box also comprises a force application component which drives the pushing component to move along the direction close to the developer outlet, and at least one part of the force application component is positioned on the outer side of the side wall of the main body; the utility model discloses a powder adding box can save space, and the whole length of powder adding box diminishes, is favorable to the miniaturization of powder adding box, reduces and occupies space to reduce packaging cost and cost of transportation.

Description

Powder adding box

[ technical field ] A method for producing a semiconductor device

The utility model relates to a add powder box for supplementing developer for imaging device.

[ background of the invention ]

After the printing consumables are consumed, the developing box (the box with the developing roller and other parts) or the ink box needs to be directly replaced by the imaging equipment such as the laser printer, the copying machine and the like, so that the old developing box and the old ink box are directly scrapped and cannot be reused, and the resource waste is caused. Therefore, an external toner cartridge capable of replenishing toner to a developing cartridge in an image forming apparatus is currently available, and the toner can be directly injected into the developing cartridge of the printer through a communication port formed in the printer. After the carbon powder of the developing box in the printer is used up, the developing box does not need to be replaced, and only the powder is added into the developing box through the powder adding box, so that the developing box can be repeatedly used.

The existing powder adding box comprises a rod part and a piston part, wherein the rod part is approximately as long as the length of a main body of the powder adding box for accommodating developer, the whole length of the powder adding box is longer, the occupied space is large, and the packaging cost and the transportation cost are increased.

[ Utility model ] content

The utility model aims at solving the problems in the prior art and providing a powder adding box.

The purpose of the utility model is realized through the following technical scheme:

a breading box comprising: a main body having a developer chamber accommodating a developer and a developer outlet; a pushing member movable in a direction close to the developer outlet to cause the developer in the main body to be discharged from the developer outlet; the powder adding box further comprises a force application component which drives the pushing component to move along the direction close to the developer outlet, and at least one part of the force application component is located on the outer side of the side wall of the main body.

Preferably, the urging member is fixedly provided on the pushing member.

Preferably, the urging member is detachably provided on the pushing member.

Preferably, the pushing member is located in the main body and is connected to an inner wall of the developer chamber in a sealing manner.

Preferably, the force applying member comprises a pull located outside of the body side wall.

Preferably, the pulling piece is a pull ring, a drag hook, a pull rope, a pull rod or a tension spring.

Preferably, the number of the force application members is two, and the two force application members are respectively located on two sides of the pushing member.

Preferably, the main body comprises an outer cylinder and/or an inner cylinder, a first through groove is formed in the outer cylinder along the longitudinal direction of the main body, a second through groove is formed in the inner cylinder along the longitudinal direction of the main body, and the force application member extends out of the main body from the first through groove and/or the second through groove.

Preferably, a first sealing element for sealing the first through groove is arranged on the outer cylinder and/or a second sealing element for sealing the second through groove is arranged on the inner cylinder.

Preferably, the first sealing element comprises two separable first sealing strips; and/or the second sealing element comprises two separable second sealing strips.

The utility model has the advantages that:

the utility model discloses a powder adding box can save space, and the whole length of powder adding box diminishes, is favorable to the miniaturization of powder adding box, reduces and occupies space to reduce packaging cost and cost of transportation.

[ description of the drawings ]

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a developing cartridge of the related art;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of an angle structure of the powder adding box according to the first embodiment of the present invention before the powder adding operation;

fig. 3 is another schematic structural view of a powder adding box provided by the first embodiment of the present invention before the powder adding operation;

fig. 4 is an exploded schematic view of a powder adding box according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural view of the powder adding box according to the first embodiment of the present invention after powder adding is completed;

fig. 6 is a schematic structural view of a powder adding box provided in the second embodiment of the present invention in a folded state;

fig. 7 is an exploded schematic view of a powder adding box according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural view of the powder adding box provided by the second embodiment of the present invention in an unfolded state.

[ detailed description ] embodiments

The following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings.

As shown in fig. 1, the electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus main body (not shown in the drawings) and a developing cartridge 200 detachably mountable to the image forming apparatus main body. The image forming apparatus main body includes a communication port provided at an outer surface, and in a state where the developing cartridge 200 is mounted to the image forming apparatus, the toner replenishment inlet 201 of the developing cartridge 200 communicates with the communication port of the image forming apparatus main body, through which a user can replenish the developing cartridge 200 with toner (i.e., developer).

Example one

As shown in fig. 2 to 5, the powder application cartridge of the present embodiment includes a main body 1, a pushing member 2, and a biasing member 22, and in the present embodiment, the main body 1 includes an inner cylinder 11 and an outer cylinder 12, a developer discharge portion 14, and a developer chamber 111. Specifically, the inner cylinder 11 is a cylindrical hollow cylinder, the outer cylinder 12 is a cylindrical hollow cylinder, and the outer cylinder 12 may be other shapes, such as a rectangular parallelepiped and a prism-shaped hollow cylinder. The outer cylinder 12 is sleeved on the outer side of the inner cylinder 11, a hollow part of the inner cylinder 11 forms a developer chamber 111 for containing developer (such as carbon powder), first through grooves 121 are formed in the side wall of the outer cylinder 12 along the longitudinal Z direction of the main body 1, the number of the first through grooves 121 is two, the two first through grooves 121 are arranged oppositely, second through grooves 112 are formed in the side wall of the inner cylinder 11 along the longitudinal Z direction of the main body 1, the number of the second through grooves 112 is two, the two second through grooves 112 are arranged oppositely, the positions of the two first through grooves 121 and the second through grooves 112 are corresponding, the upper ends of the inner cylinder 11 and the outer cylinder 12 are open, and a top cover 122 matched with the outer cylinder 12 is arranged at the upper end of the outer cylinder 12. The developer discharging part 14 of the loading box 100 is located at the lower end of the main body 1, which may be the lower end of the outer cylinder 12, the developer outlet 113 is provided at the lower end of the inner cylinder 11, and the toner is discharged outside the main body 1 through the developer outlet 113.

Alternatively, the main body 1 may be provided with only one cartridge, i.e., only the outer cartridge 12 or the inner cartridge 11.

The pushing member 2 is used for pushing carbon powder, before the powder adding operation, the pushing member 2 is located at a first position, and after the powder adding operation is completed, the pushing member 2 is located at a second position; preferably, the pushing member 2 is located at the upper end of the main body 1 at the first position, in which the toner in the main body 1 is not pushed out of the main body 1, the pushing member 2 is movable (i.e., moves downward) in the longitudinal direction Z of the main body 1 in a direction close to the developer outlet 113 to discharge the toner contained in the main body 1 from the developer outlet 113 of the developer discharge portion 14, and the pushing member 2 is moved to the second position (the pushing member 2 is no longer movable downward) where the lower end thereof contacts the bottom of the inner wall of the main body 1. In the present embodiment, the pushing member 2 is inserted into the main body 1 from the upper end of the main body 1, and specifically, the pushing member 2 is inserted into the inner cylinder 11 to be movable relative to the main body 1. The push member 2 comprises a piston portion 21, which piston portion 21 is sealingly connected to the body 1 and is slidable along the inner wall of the body 1.

The urging member 22 is used to drive the pushing member 2 to move in a direction close to the developer outlet 113, the urging member 22 may be two, and is respectively disposed on two side walls of the piston portion 21, specifically, the urging member 22 may be a cylindrical component, a first end of the urging member 22 is connected to the piston portion 21, a second end of the urging member extends out of the outer wall of the main body 1 from the second through groove 112 and the first through groove 121, the urging member 22 may move up and down along the first through groove 121 and the second through groove 112 under the action of external force, a second end of the urging member 22 is provided with a combining portion 221, the combining portion 221 is used to mount the pulling member 23, specifically, the combining portion 221 is a groove disposed at the second end of the urging member 22, the pulling member 23 may be a pull ring, the pull ring is fixed in the groove so as to be fixed on the urging member 22, a downward force is applied to the pull ring, and the piston portion 21 is driven to move (i.e., move downward) in a direction close to the developer outlet 113 along the longitudinal direction Z of the main body 1, the toner accommodated in the inner cylinder 11 is discharged from the developer outlet 113 of the developer discharging portion.

Alternatively, the urging member 22 and the piston portion 21 are formed integrally.

Optionally, the force applying component 22 and the piston portion 21 are of a separate structure, a through hole is formed in a side wall of the piston portion 21, and a first end of the force applying component 22 is inserted into the through hole so as to be fixed on the piston portion 21; the urging member 22 may be directly fixed to the side wall of the piston portion 21.

Alternatively, the force application member 22 may have other shape structures, such as a rectangular parallelepiped shape, a prism shape, a bar shape, etc., and the shape thereof is not strictly limited as long as the second end thereof can protrude out of the outer wall of the main body 1 through the first through groove 121 and the second through groove 112.

Alternatively, the pulling member 23 may be a drag hook, a pull rope, a pull rod, a tension spring, or the like. The combining portion 221 may be correspondingly disposed according to the pulling member 23, and may be a groove, a through hole, a connecting rod, etc.

Alternatively, the pulling piece 23 and the joint 221 may be omitted, and the force for moving the push member 2 downward may be directly applied to the urging member 22.

Alternatively, the pulling member 23 is the urging member 22, and specifically, the urging member 22 may be a tension spring having one end directly connected to the piston portion 21 and the other end extending out of the side wall of the main body 1, and applying a downward force to the tension spring, or achieving a movement (i.e., downward movement) of the piston portion 21 in the longitudinal direction Z of the main body 1 toward the developer outlet 113.

Alternatively, the urging member 22 is provided as one.

The first sealing element 15 is used for sealing the first through groove 121, the first sealing element 15 comprises two first sealing strips 151, the two first sealing strips 151 are attached side by side and arranged in the first through groove 121, the two first sealing strips 151 are in a state of being attached to each other under the condition of not receiving external force, when the external force is received, the two first sealing strips 151 can be compressed, and then the two first sealing strips 151 are separated, the non-attached sides of the two first sealing strips 151 are fixed on the first through groove 121, concretely, the first sealing element 15 can be sponge, and can be adhered and fixed on the first through groove 121, when the force application member 22 moves up and down, the force application member 22 can compress the first sealing element 15, so that the attached sides of the two first sealing strips 151 are separated, the force application member 22 moves in a gap between the two first sealing strips 151, and the positions, to which the force application member 22 does not move, on the two first sealing strips 151 can not be separated, the two first seal strips 151 are deformed to be restored from the position where the force applying member 22 has moved. Alternatively, the first sealing member 15 may be felt or rubber.

The second sealing member 16 is used for sealing the second through groove 112, the second sealing member 16 includes two second sealing strips 161, the two second sealing strips 161 are attached side by side and arranged in the second through groove 112, the two second sealing strips 161 are in a state of being attached to each other without being applied with an external force, when the external force is applied, the two second sealing strips 161 can be compressed, and then the two second sealing strips 161 are separated, the non-attached side of the two second sealing strips 161 is fixed in the second through groove 112, specifically, the second sealing member 16 can be a sponge, and can be attached to the second through groove 112, when the force application member 22 moves up and down, the force application member 22 can compress the second sealing strip 16, so that the attached side of the two second sealing strips 161 is separated, the force application member 22 moves in the gap between the two second sealing strips 161, and the position to which the force application member 22 does not move on the two second sealing strips 161 is not separated, the two second seal strips 161 are deformed to be restored from the position where the force applying member 22 has moved. Alternatively, the second seal 16 may also be felt or rubber.

A new toner cartridge, referring to fig. 1, when a toner charging operation is performed, a user may insert the developer discharge portion 14 of the toner cartridge into the communication port of the image forming apparatus, the toner cartridge is rotated so that the developer outlet 113 of the toner cartridge communicates with the toner replenishment inlet 201 of the developing cartridge 200 in the image forming apparatus, a downward moving force is applied to the force application member 22, thereby causing the pushing member 2 to move in the longitudinal direction Z of the main body 1 in a direction approaching the developer outlet 113 (i.e., downward movement), causing the toner contained in the main body 1 to be discharged from the developer outlet 113 of the developer discharging portion, meanwhile, the force applying member 22 pushes the first sealing member 15 and the second sealing member 16 to move downward in the first through groove 121 and the second through groove 112 until the lower end of the pushing member 2 abuts against the inner wall of the lower end of the main body 1, so that the force for moving the pushing member 2 downward is stopped to be applied, and the powder adding operation is completed.

The powder adding box of the structure has the advantages that at least one part of the force application component 22 is located on the outer side of the side wall of the main body 1, a user can make the pushing component 2 move downwards to add powder through applying force to the force application component, the whole length of the powder adding box with the structure is smaller than that of the existing powder adding box, the powder adding box is favorable for miniaturization of the powder adding box, the occupied space is reduced, and therefore the packaging cost and the transportation cost are reduced.

Example two

As shown in fig. 6 to 8, the compact provided by the present embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the pushing member has a different structure, and the main body 101 omits the first through groove 121 and the second through groove 112, and omits the first sealing member 15 and the second sealing member 16; wherein, the pushing member 102 includes a piston portion 1021, a pushing portion 1022, a pivot portion 1023 and a force receiving portion 1024, a connecting portion 10211 is disposed at the top of the piston portion 1021, a first end of the pivot portion 1023 is connected to the connecting portion 10211, specifically, a first through hole 1025 can be disposed on the connecting portion 10211, a second through hole 1026 is disposed on the pivot portion 1023, the pivot portion 1023 can rotate around the first connecting shaft 1027 by passing the first connecting shaft 1027 through the first through hole 1025 on the connecting portion 10211 and the second through hole 1026 on the pivot portion 1023 in sequence, when the pivot portion 1023 rotates to a position attached to the top of the piston portion 1021 (i.e. the pivot portion 1023 is in a horizontal state), a second end of the pivot portion 1023 protrudes out of a side wall of the main body 101, a third through hole 1028 can be disposed at the second end of the pivot portion 1023, a third connecting shaft 1029 adapted to the first end of the portion 1022 is disposed at the first end of the third through hole 1028, the third connecting shaft 1029 is inserted into the third through hole 1028 to connect the pushing part 1022 to the second end of the pivot portion 1023, and the pushing part 1022 can rotate around the second end of the pivot portion 1023. Alternatively, the third connecting shaft 1029 may be disposed at the second end of the pivot portion 1023, and the third through hole 1028 may be disposed at the first end of the pushing portion 1022. The stress part 1024 is arranged at the second end of the pushing part 1022, and the stress part 1024 rotates along with the pushing part 1022. in this embodiment, the stress part 1024 can be flat, a notch is arranged on the stress part 1024, the notch can be matched with the outer wall of the main body 101, and when the pushing part 1022 rotates to the outer wall of the fitting main body 101, the notch is clamped on the outer wall of the main body 101. Preferably, the pushing part 1022, the pivoting part 1023 and the force receiving part 1024 are arranged in two sets, and the two sets are arranged oppositely.

A new toner cartridge, referring to fig. 1, before the toner loading operation, the pivot portion 1023 may be in a state of being attached to the top of the piston portion 1021, the pushing portion 1022 may be in a state of being attached to the outer wall of the main body 101, when the toner loading operation is performed, a user may insert the developer discharging portion 14 of the toner cartridge into the communicating port of the image forming apparatus, rotate the toner cartridge so that the developer outlet 113 of the toner cartridge communicates with the toner replenishing inlet 201 of the developer cartridge 200 in the image forming apparatus, apply a force to the pivot portion 1023 to rotate it so that the pivot portion 1023 rotates in a state perpendicular to the piston portion 1021 (i.e., in the Z direction), apply a force to rotate it to rotate the pushing portion 1022 so that the pushing portion 1022 rotates in a state of being in the same line as the pivot portion 1023 (i.e., in the Z direction), with the force receiving portion 1024 being uppermost, press the force receiving portion 1024 applying a downward movement, thereby moving the entire pushing member 102 in the longitudinal direction Z of the main body 101 in a direction close to the developer outlet 113 (i.e., downward movement), the toner accommodated in the main body 101 is discharged from the developer outlet 113 of the developer discharge portion until the lower end of the pushing member 102 abuts against the inner wall of the lower end of the main body 1011, and the application of the force for moving the pushing member 102 downward is stopped, and the toner application operation is completed.

The powder adding box with the structure, the pushing part 1022 and the pivoting part 1023 are rotatable, so that the pushing component 102 can be folded, the length of the pushing component 102 is reduced, the whole length of the powder adding box is reduced, the miniaturization of the powder adding box is facilitated, the occupied space is reduced, and the packaging cost and the transportation cost are reduced.

In the description of the present invention, it should be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "front", "rear", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplification of description, but do not indicate or imply that the device or element referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus should not be construed as limiting the present invention. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second", "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, features defined as "first", "second", "third" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of the features.

The above embodiments are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. According to the utility model discloses a shape, structure and principle have a great deal of transform yet. Therefore, any changes and modifications made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention should be covered by the present invention.

Claims

1. A breading box comprising:

a main body having a developer chamber accommodating a developer and a developer outlet;

a pushing member movable in a direction close to the developer outlet to cause the developer in the main body to be discharged from the developer outlet;

the method is characterized in that: the powder adding box further comprises a force application component which drives the pushing component to move along the direction close to the developer outlet, and at least one part of the force application component is located on the outer side of the side wall of the main body.

2. The breading box of claim 1 characterized in that:

the force application member is fixedly arranged on the pushing member.

3. The breading box as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

the urging member is detachably provided on the pushing member.

4. The breading box of claim 1 characterized in that:

the pushing member is located in the main body and is connected with the inner wall of the developer chamber in a sealing mode.

5. The breading box of claim 1 characterized in that:

the force applying member includes a pull located outside of the body sidewall.

6. The toner cartridge of claim 5, wherein:

the traction piece is a pull ring, a drag hook, a pull rope, a pull rod or a tension spring.

7. The compact according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that:

the two force application components are respectively positioned on two sides of the pushing component.

8. The toner cartridge of claim 7, wherein:

the main body comprises an outer cylinder and/or an inner cylinder, a first through groove is formed in the outer cylinder along the longitudinal direction of the main body, a second through groove is formed in the inner cylinder along the longitudinal direction of the main body, and the force application component extends out of the main body from the first through groove and/or the second through groove.

9. The toner cartridge of claim 8, wherein:

and a first sealing element used for sealing the first through groove is arranged on the outer barrel and/or a second sealing element used for sealing the second through groove is arranged on the inner barrel.

10. The breading box of claim 9 characterized in that:

the first sealing element comprises two first sealing strips which can be separated and combined; and/or the second sealing element comprises two separable second sealing strips.