Process cartridge

A process cartridge attachable to and removable from an apparatus main body of an image forming apparatus, the process cartridge comprising:

• a drum unit including a photosensitive drum rotatable about a rotational axis in parallel with a first direction and a drive member provided to an end of the photosensitive drum in the first direction;
• a frame body rotatably supporting the drum unit and having an opening that opens in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, the opening exposing a part of the drum unit in a circumferential direction thereof;
• a shutter member disposed downstream of a part of the photosensitive drum exposed through the opening in the second direction, and shielding a surface of the photosensitive drum, which is the part of the drum unit exposed through the opening,
• a link member supported on the frame body in a rotatable manner in a third direction that is a direction rotating about an axis parallel with the first direction and intersecting with the second direction and connecting the frame body and the shutter member attached to the link member, wherein
• the shutter member is caused to rotate by a rotation of the link member and is movable in the third direction between a shielding position shielding the exposed part of the photosensitive drum and an open position not shielding the exposed part of the photosensitive drum,
• a side of the photosensitive drum in the first direction in which the drive member is provided is a driving side, a side of the photosensitive drum in which the drive member is not provided is a non-driving side, and a direction in which the shutter member moves toward the open position from the shielding position within a movable range of the shutter member is a positive direction along the third direction,
• the link member is supported rotatably on a part of the frame body on the driving side in the first direction and attached to a part of the shutter member on the driving side in the first direction,
• in a state where the shutter member is at the shielding position, a joint between the link member and the shutter member is positioned on a part of the shutter member on the positive direction side along the third direction,
• the link member has a first portion extending from the joint toward the outside of the shutter member in the first direction from the non-driving side toward the driving side, and
• in a state where the shutter member is at the shielding position, at least a part of the first portion overlaps with the drive member in the first direction, and at least a part of the first portion overlaps with the drive member in a view in the second direction.