POWDER CONTAINER, PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC G03G21/10 

FIELD: image forming device.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to a container for powder installed with possibility of removal in the main body of an image forming device or a cartridge, and relates to a process cartridge and an image forming device, each of which includes a container for powder. Disclosed group of inventions includes versions of containers for powder, which are installed with possibility of removal in the main housing of image forming device, versions of process cartridges, which are installed with possibility of removal in the main body of the image forming device, and versions of image forming devices. At that, powder container comprises: collection hole to receive and collect powder from outside, driven unit, which is located on one end side in direction along width of powder container and to which driving moment is transmitted from outside, first rotating shaft, which is rotated by drive moment transmitted to slave unit, first gear wheel, which is located on other end side in direction along width of powder container and which is rotated by first rotating shaft, second rotating shaft, which is located on said other end side in direction along width of powder container, which includes second gear wheel, which is transmitted from first gear wheel driving torque, and which is rotated by second gear wheel, and drive gear wheel, which is located on the second rotating shaft in the position between the second gear wheel and the central part in the width direction of the powder container and which is rotated by the second rotating shaft, transmitting the drive torque to the outside.

EFFECT: technical result consists in providing container for powder, process cartridge and image forming device, in which slave unit serving as drive torque input unit, and driving gear wheel serving as drive torque output unit can be provided without considerable increase in powder container size.

26 cl, 16 dwg