DRUM CARTRIDGE INCLUDING ELECTRICAL CONTACT SURFACE POSITIONED AT OUTER SURFACE OF DRUM FRAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240345538A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18754929

    申请日:2024-06-26

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18

    摘要: A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge is attachable; a photosensitive drum; and a first storage medium. The drum frame has one end portion and another end portion spaced apart from the one end portion in a first direction. The photosensitive drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a second direction and is positioned at the one end portion of the drum cartridge. The first storage medium includes a first electrical contact surface. The first storage medium is positioned at an outer surface of the drum frame, the outer surface being exposed in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum frame.

    Process cartridge having drum cartridge and developing cartridge including first and second electrical contact surfaces

    公开(公告)号:US12085891B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18316583

    申请日:2023-05-12

    IPC分类号: G03G21/00 G03G21/18

    摘要: A process cartridge includes a drum cartridge that has a drum frame having a a second end portion spaced apart from a first end portion in a first direction and a fourth end portion spaced apart from a third end portion in a second direction, a photosensitive drum rotatable about a first axis extending in the second direction and positioned at the first end portion of the drum frame, and a first storage medium that includes a first electrical contact surface. A developing cartridge is detachably attachable to the drum frame and has a developing roller that is rotatable about a second axis extending in the second direction and a second storage medium including a second electrical contact surface. The first electrical contact surface is positioned closer to the second end portion of the drum frame than the photosensitive drum is to the second end portion of the drum frame in the first direction, and in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum cartridge, the second electrical contact surface is positioned closer to the second end portion of the drum frame than the photosensitive drum is to the second end portion of the drum frame in the first direction.

    DEVELOPING CARTRIDGE
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240264563A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-08

    申请号:US18640847

    申请日:2024-04-19

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18 G03G15/08 G03G21/16

    摘要: A developing cartridge includes a housing, a storage medium having an electrical contact surface, a holder holding the electrical contact surface and movable with respect to the housing between a first position and a second position, and a roller including a first roller protrusion. The first roller protrusion is movable between a third position and a fourth position in accordance with rotation of the roller. The holder is movable in accordance with movement of the first roller protrusion. As the first roller protrusion moves from the third position to the fourth position, the holder moves from the first position to the second position.

    IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS
    5.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240085851A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-14

    申请号:US18510497

    申请日:2023-11-15

    发明人: Daisuke Abe Koji Wada

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18 G03G21/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.

    Cartridge unit
    6.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11927913B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17554157

    申请日:2021-12-17

    IPC分类号: G03G21/18

    摘要: A cartridge unit includes: a first unit which includes a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion; and a second unit which includes a first supported portion, a second supported portion, and a storage member, the storage member including a memory contact, and a contact arrangement surface on which the memory contact is disposed. The second unit rotates from a first position to a second position in a state in which the first supported portion is supported by the first supporting portion and the second supported portion is supported by the second supporting portion to be positioned with respect to the first unit. A normal direction of the contact arrangement surface faces toward a direction in which the memory contact is exposed. The normal direction faces toward a direction opposite to a direction in which the second unit is directed from the first position to the second position.

    Image forming apparatus
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11841674B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-12

    申请号:US18045706

    申请日:2022-10-11

    发明人: Daisuke Abe Koji Wada

    IPC分类号: G03G15/00 G03G21/18 G03G21/16

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including a main contact, and a main guide, and a cartridge including a memory contact, a moving unit moving into and out of the apparatus body in a first direction and including a frame to which the cartridge is attached, first and second protrusions protruding in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction from the end surface of the frame, an intermediate contact being in electrical contact with the memory contact, an unit contact being in electrical contact with the main contact, and a line conductor, the first protrusion being supported by the main guide of the apparatus body, the second protrusion being located above the first protrusion. At least part of the line conductor connecting the intermediate contact and the unit contact is located in a recess formed by the first protrusion, the second protrusion, and the end surface.