Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 处理盒和电子照相成像设备
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Application No.: US11944817Application Date: 2007-11-26
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Publication No.: US07929881B2Publication Date: 2011-04-19
- Inventor: Yasufumi Yoshino , Kazuhiko Kanno
- Applicant: Yasufumi Yoshino , Kazuhiko Kanno
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
- Priority: JP2006-333859 20061211; JP2007-294950 20071113
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a photosensitive unit rotatably supporting the drum, and a protecting cover mountable to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus main body, for protecting the drum exposed to the outside of the photosensitive unit. The protecting cover includes a guide for guiding the cartridge to an inside of the main body along a longitudinal direction of the drum, a positioned portion at a leading end of the cover so as to be abutted against a positioning portion of the main body, for positioning the cover in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, and an engaged portion at the leading end so as to be engaged with an engaging portion of the main body in the inserting direction, for regulating detachment of the protecting cover from the apparatus main body from an upstream side thereof in the insertion direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080138110A1 PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2008-06-12
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