Invention Grant
US08175486B2 Image forming apparatus having body-side contacts and unit-side contacts
有权
图像形成装置具有主体侧触点和单元侧触点
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus having body-side contacts and unit-side contacts
- Patent Title (中): 图像形成装置具有主体侧触点和单元侧触点
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Application No.: US12964471Application Date: 2010-12-09
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Publication No.: US08175486B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Yasushi Okabe
- Applicant: Yasushi Okabe
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2006-091956 20060329
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus may include an apparatus body, and a photosensitive-member unit slidably attached to the apparatus body and retaining a plurality of photosensitive members. The apparatus body includes side wall portions opposing each other with a unit receiving section sandwiched therebetween, and a plurality of apparatus-body-side electrode members provided on the side wall portions, and each urged inward in an opposing direction of the side wall portions. The photosensitive-member unit includes a plurality of unit-side electrode members each protruding outward in the opposite direction and a guide path comprising a flat surface formed in a flat shape so that each of the apparatus-body-side electrode members slidably contacts to the flat surface during attachment of the photosensitive-member unit with respect to the unit receiving section, and that each of the apparatus-body-side electrode members slidably contacted maintains a constant inward and outward position in the opposite direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110076050A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-03-31
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