Side member, cartridge, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasanari Morioka, Yuichi Fukui
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Abstract
A nondrive-side side member forms a part of a cartridge and includes a frame portion, and a regulation frame portion provided in the frame portion, to regulate movement of the cartridge. The frame portion has a hole provided to expose an electric contact. Further, a drive-side side member forms a part of a cartridge and includes a frame portion having a first hole and a second hole with a diameter larger than a diameter of the first hole, and a slit portion into which a memory for storing information is to be inserted.
Claims24
A side member forming a part of a cartridge to be used for forming an image on a recording medium, the side member comprising:
- a frame portion;
- and
- a regulation groove portion provided in the frame portion, to regulate movement of the cartridge,
- wherein the frame portion has a hole provided to expose an electric contact, and
- wherein, when the cartridge is mounted to a main body of an image forming apparatus, the regulation groove portion and the hole are located on a straight line in a direction of mounting the cartridge.
A side member forming a part of a cartridge to be used for forming an image on a recording medium, the side member comprising:
- a frame portion having a first hole and a second hole with a diameter larger than a diameter of the first hole;
- and
- a slit portion into which a memory for storing information is to be inserted.
A cartridge having at least one of a first unit including an image bearing member and a second unit including a developer bearing member, and capable of being removably mounted to a main body of an image forming apparatus, to be used for forming an image on a recording medium, the cartridge comprising:
- a drive-side side member;
- and
- a nondrive-side side member,
- wherein the drive-side side member includes
- a frame portion having a first hole and a second hole with a diameter larger than a diameter of the first hole, and
- a slit portion into which a memory for storing information is to be inserted,
- wherein the nondrive-side side member includes a frame portion, and
- a regulation groove portion provided in the frame portion, to regulate movement of the cartridge, and
- wherein the frame portion has a hole provided to expose an electric contact.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.