POWDER LEAKAGE PREVENTION STRUCTURE, POWDER CONTAINER, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power leakage prevention structure and a power container in which sealing is ensured.SOLUTION: The power leakage prevention structure includes a first member 13 provided with a connection surface 15 having an opening 14 which powder can pass through, an elastically compressible seal member 16 arranged on the connection surface 15 so as to surround the opening 14, and a second member 12 which can be mounted to the first member 13 so as to clamp the seal member 16. The second member 12 has an inclination part 19 whose tip end is located inside the seal member 16, which inclines toward outside so as to become far from the connection surface 15, and which presses the seal member 16 in such a way that an inside compression rate becomes higher. The drop of the seal member 16 into the opening 14 is inhibited by pressing the seal member 16 so as to include a component of a force that acts toward the outside circumferential side of the seal member 16.