DEVELOPER CONTAINER, DEVELOPING DEVICE, PROCESS UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC G03G15/08 

FIELD: electrostatographic printing; electrophotography; magnetography.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to a developer container, which contains a developer, a developing device, a process unit and an image forming device, which include a developer container. Claimed developer container is configured to be attached to the main body of the plant, wherein the developer container comprises: a first gear wheel located at a first end of the developer container in the longitudinal direction of the developer container, second gear wheel for engaging the first gear wheel and a passage area through which the protrusion of the main body of the plant passes when the developer container is attached to the main body of the plant, first gear wheel is movable between an engaged position in which the first gear wheel is engaged with the second gear wheel and a disengaged position in which the first gear wheel is disengaged from the second gear wheel, and the passage area includes at least a portion of the region between the first gear wheel in the disengaged position and the second gear wheel.

EFFECT: technical result is preventing the side portion of the main body from clinging to the main body of the image forming apparatus by a sequence of gear wheels during attachment or detaching of the developer container, and also providing a reduced size of the developer container, since the degree of freedom in designing the layout of the portion guiding the container and being in the developer container is increased.

16 cl, 33 dwg