| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a toner supply container which can reduce the production costs when manufacturing a plurality of container bodies, is not wrongly set in the main section of an image forming apparatus, and is easy to handle, and also provide an image forming apparatus with the same. <P>SOLUTION: A plurality of toner cartridges 40b-40d have container bodies 51b-51d to store toner, and toner supply ports 52b-52d to supply toner to the toner loading ports 3b-3d of the developing units 2b-2d disposed in the right and left directions of the main section of an image forming apparatus 1, and are detachably atached to the front of the main sections. A plurality of container bodies 51b-51d are made of square base sections 56b-56d and a square prism having four sides 57b-57d symmetrical to the surface including the center axial lines 58b-58d of these container bodies 51b-51d. The toner supply ports 52b-52d are formed on the bottoms 56b-56d at the same position apart from the center axial lines 58b-58d and are at different positions from the center axial lines 58b-58d in the right and left directions of the apparatus body when set in the apparatus bodies. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
