Image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorToshiro TOMONO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a body, a cartridge, detachably mountable to the body, configured to form a toner image, an information recording portion provided in the cartridge and configured to record information, a control portion provided in the body and configured to electrically communicate with the information recording portion, and a connector provided in the body and configured to electrically connect the control portion with the information recording portion. The connector has a temperature detecting portion configured to detect temperature.
Claims12
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a body;
- a cartridge, detachably mountable to the body, configured to form a toner image;
- an information recording portion provided in the cartridge and configured to record information;
- a control portion provided in the body and configured to electrically communicate with the information recording portion;
- and
- a connector provided in the body and configured to electrically connect the control portion with the information recording portion, the connector having a temperature detecting portion configured to detect temperature.
An image forming apparatus configured to be able to mount a cartridge forming a toner image detachably, comprising:
- a body;
- and
- a connector provided in the body and including electric contact electrically connecting with an information recording portion provided in the cartridge and a temperature detecting portion detecting a temperature;
- wherein the connector is connected with a power source supplying line supplying power source to the information recording portion and the temperature detecting portion through the electric contact.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a developing unit developing an electrostatic image on a photoconductive body as a toner image by using developer;
- a body to which the developing unit is detachably mounted;
- a first connector fixed to the developing unit;
- a second connector disposed on the body side and detachably connected to the first connector to electrically communicate with the first connector;
- and
- a temperature detecting element disposed on the second connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.