摘要:
A seal member for sealing an opening of a developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer, which developer accommodating container is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes a seal base for sealing the opening; a force receiving portion for receiving force for unsealing the seal base; an electroconductive portion capable of being disconnected by an unsealing operation of the seal base, the electroconductive portion including a contact portion electrically connectable with a contact portion of the main assembly of the image forming apparatus to permit the main assembly of the image forming apparatus to detect whether the electroconductive portion is disconnected or not.
摘要:
A remanufacturing method for a process cartridge (P) detachably mountable to a main assembly (C) of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, includes (a) an end cover removing step of cutting a fixing portion (19i) between the second end cover (19) and the drum frame (13) and cutting a fixing portion (19i) between the second end cover (19) and the developer frame (16), and removing the second end cover (19) from the drum frame (13) and the developer frame (16) with or without a previous electrophotographic photosensitive drum removing steps of removing a part of the drum (11) and then removing the rest of the drum from the drum frame (13).