Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Process cartridge and image forming apparatus
-
Application No.: US15287589Application Date: 2016-10-06
-
Publication No.: US09857767B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Naoya Asanuma , Go Torii , Junichi Matsumura , Masahito Kato , Atsushi Toda
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon USA, Inc. I.P. Division
- Priority: JP2015-203147 20151014
- Main IPC: G03G21/18
- IPC: G03G21/18

Abstract:
A process cartridge includes a drum unit configured to rotatably hold a photosensitive drum, a developing unit that is assembled in such a manner as to be rotatable relative to the drum unit and includes a developing roller, gap maintaining members provided to the photosensitive drum or the developing roller on both end portions of the photosensitive drum in an axial direction, and urging members configured to bias the developing unit toward the drum unit. The urging members are respectively disposed on outer sides of the gap maintaining members disposed at both end portions in the axial direction. The drum unit or the developing unit includes an electric contact portion configured to come into contact with an electric contact of an image forming apparatus when the process cartridge is attached to the image forming apparatus, the electric contact portion being disposed between the gap maintaining members in the axial direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170108828A1 PROCESS CARTRIDGE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2017-04-20
Information query