Patent ID: 9170528
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A toner container to be detachably mounted on a container mounting portion of an image forming apparatus, the container mounting portion including: a pair of guide ditches; a contact terminal disposed between the pair of guide ditches; and a restriction piece provided in each of the guide ditches in such a way as to protrude from an end portion of each guide ditch toward a center of each guide ditch, the toner container comprising: a container body that contains toner; a pair of guide portions provided in such a way as to protrude from a bottom surface of the container body in a direction perpendicular to the bottom surface and extending in a mounting direction toward a mounting position that allows toner to be supplied from the container body to the image forming apparatus, the pair of guide portions allowing the container body to be guided in the mounting direction, the pair of guide portions each having a protrusion piece protruding, in a direction orthogonal to a side surface of the guide portion, from an end of the guide portion in the direction perpendicular to the bottom surface of the container body; and a storage portion attached at a predetermined position, in a vicinity of the protrusion piece, between the pair of guide portions on the bottom surface of the container body, the storage portion being configured to store information about toner contained in the container body, wherein when the container body is inserted in the mounting direction into the container mounting portion, the guide portions are inserted in the mounting direction into the guide ditches of the container mounting portion and guide the container body in the mounting direction while positioning the container body so as not to be displaced in the orthogonal direction, the protrusion pieces are engaged with the restriction pieces and guide the container body so as to be slidable in the mounting direction while positioning the container body so as not to be displaced in the perpendicular direction, and the storage portion contacts the contact terminal in a state where the container body is located at the mounting position.