Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsIn Cheol JEON, Sung Gi Kim
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a mounting/demounting structure between a main body and an image carrying unit. The image forming apparatus includes a main body provided with a first electrical connecting part, an image carrying unit removably mounted in the main body and provided with a second electrical connecting part, and a guide device to guide the image carrying unit in an insertion direction and a lateral direction so that the second electrical connecting part of the image carrying unit is connected to the first electrical connecting part of the main body. Accordingly, interference between the image carrying unit and an inner side surface of the main body is decreased, and mounting performance is enhanced.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body provided with a first electrical connecting part;
- an image carrying unit removably mounted in the main body, the image carrying unit being provided with a second electrical connecting part;
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- a guide device to guide the image carrying unit in an insertion direction and a lateral direction so that the second electrical connecting part of the image carrying unit is connected to the first electrical connecting part of the main body.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body;
- a removable unit removably mounted in the main body;
- a contact provided at a portion of the removable unit;
- a terminal provided at an inner side surface of the main body, the terminal being connected to the contact when the removable unit is in the main body;
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- a guide device to guide the removable unit to a mounting position,
- whereby the removable unit begins being inserted into the main body while the removable unit is spaced apart from the terminal in a lateral direction, and then is connected to the terminal when the removable unit closely approaches the mounting position.
An image carrying unit removably mounted in a main body of an image forming apparatus, the image carrying unit comprising:
- a contact provided at a portion of the image carrying unit;
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- a guide device to guide the image carrying unit to be moved in an insertion direction and a lateral direction so that the contact is connected to a terminal provided at the main body of the image forming apparatus.
A removable unit removably mounted in a main body of an image forming apparatus, the removable unit comprising:
- a contact provided at a side portion of the removable unit, the contact being connected to a terminal provided at the main body when the removable unit is in the main body;
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- a concave part connected with a convex part provided at the main body to guide the removable unit to a mounting position,
- whereby the removable unit begins being inserted into the main body while the removable unit is spaced apart from the terminal in a lateral direction, and then is connected to the terminal when the removable unit closely approaches the mounting position.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a main body provided with first electrical contacts at a sidewall therein;
- an image carrying unit removably mountable into the main body and including second electrical contacts at a side thereof to make an electrical contact with the first electrical contacts;
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- a guide device to guide the image carrying unit into the main body while shifting the image carrying unit such that the sidewall having the first electrical contacts is separated by a distance from the side of the image carrying part when the image carrying unit begins to be mounted into the main body and the sidewall having the first electrical contacts comes into contact with the side of the image carrying part when the image carrying unit becomes fully mounted into the main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.