Title:
INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS, TONER STORING CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2003107977
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To provide interchangeable parts that are hardly limitated, neither altered nor forged, and that are equipped with a specific identification means excellent in durability and freely attached to/detached from an image forming device body.
A solid 3D identification code (three-dimensional solid code information) 7 having detection inclined-surfaces 711, 712, 721 and 722 having a specified angle is engraved on the canopy surface, for example, of the interchangeable part such as a processing unit, a toner cartridge and a toner bottle used to be freely attached to/detached from the device body of an electrostatic copying device or a printer or the like.
Inventors:
MASUDA JITSUO
NARIMATSU MASAYASU
KAWAMOTO HIROSHI
YOSHIDA HIROAKI
SAKAI MASAHIRO
FUKUTO NAOKI
NARIMATSU MASAYASU
KAWAMOTO HIROSHI
YOSHIDA HIROAKI
SAKAI MASAHIRO
FUKUTO NAOKI
Application Number:
JP2001306340A
Publication Date:
April 11, 2003
Filing Date:
October 02, 2001
Export Citation:
Assignee:
SHARP KK
International Classes:
B41J29/46; G03G15/08; G03G21/00; G03G21/18; (IPC1-7): G03G21/18; B41J29/46; G03G15/08; G03G21/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hisao Komori