Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cartridge and imaging forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16682372Application Date: 2019-11-13
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Publication No.: US10928771B2Publication Date: 2021-02-23
- Inventor: Akihiro Fujiwara , Tadashi Horikawa , Naoki Matsumaru , Ryuta Murakami , Daisuke Makiguichi
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JPJP2018-008680 20180123,JPJP2018-044160 20180312
- Main IPC: G03G21/18
- IPC: G03G21/18 ; G03G15/08

Abstract:
A cartridge mountable to and dismountable from a main assembly of an image forming apparatus includes a memory, a guide configured to guide a portion-to-be-guided provided in the main assembly and to guide a main assembly contact provided in the main assembly to a memory contact of the memory when the cartridge is mounted in the main assembly, and a grip portion. The guide is provided at a bottom of the cartridge when the cartridge is hung by gripping the grip portion and constitutes a part of a supporting portion configured to support the cartridge when the cartridge is placed on a horizontal placement surface. The guide has a chamfered surface formed by being chamfered. When the cartridge is supported at the supporting portion, the chamfered surface opposes the horizontal placement surface, and a surface of the memory contact is inclined with respect to the horizontal placement surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US10962927B2 Cartridge and imaging forming apparatus Public/Granted day:2021-03-30
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