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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Takarada, Kuniaki Hirukawa, Akira Suzuki, Nobuharu Hoshi, Yuichi Fukui
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In a cartridge provided with an electrode portion for connecting a main assembly contact and process means by injecting an electroconductive resin into a frame, in order to simplify structures of the frame and the electrode portion and to improve an assembling property of the cartridge and an electrode property of the electrode portion, the cartridge electrode integrally molded by injecting the electroconductive resin into the frame includes a first contact portion, exposed toward an outside of the frame, contacted to a main assembly contact provided in the apparatus main assembly; a second contact portion provided for being electrically connected to the process means; and an injection receiving portion into which the resin is injected when the cartridge electrode is molded into the frame, and, the electroconductive resin injected from the injection receiving portion is branched to mold the first contact portion and the second contact portion so that an electroconductive path for electrically connecting the main assembly contact and the process means is formed
1-37. (canceled)
A manufacturing method of a cartridge detachably mountable to an apparatus main assembly of an image forming apparatus, wherein said cartridge includes:
A manufacturing method of a cartridge detachably mountable to an apparatus main assembly of an image forming apparatus, wherein said cartridge includes:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.