Developing cartridge and image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsOsamu Anan, Masato Tanabe, Tsukasa Abe, Kazutaka Sueshige
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Abstract
A second unit includes a restricted portion that comes into contact with a restricting portion provided to a body of an apparatus, the restricted portion coming into contact with the restricting portion, in order to restrict the movement of a developer carrier in a direction to make contact with an image carrier, when a developing cartridge has not reached a predetermined attachment position, and not coming into contact with the restricting portion when the developing cartridge is in the predetermined attachment position.
Claims13
A developing cartridge capable of being attached to and detached from a body of an image forming apparatus, the developing cartridge comprising:
- a first unit fixed to the body when the developing cartridge is in a predetermined attachment position in the body;
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- a second unit supporting a developer carrier that is to make contact with an image carrier provided to the body, the second unit being assembled to be movable with respect to the first unit for contact or separation of the developer carrier with respect to the image carrier,
- such that an inserting direction in which the developing cartridge is guided up to the predetermined attachment position and a direction in which the developer carrier makes contact with or separates from the image carrier differ, and
- such that the second unit includes a restricted portion that comes into contact with a restricting portion provided to the body, the restricted portion coming into contact with the restricting portion when the developing cartridge has not reached the predetermined attachment position and not coming into contact with the restricting portion when the developing cartridge is in the predetermined attachment position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.