Image forming apparatus and developing cartridge
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYu Fukasawa, Yukio Kubo, Daisuke Abe, Mitsuhiro Sato, Masahiro Suetsugu, Kengo Sakai
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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYu Fukasawa, Yukio Kubo, Daisuke Abe, Mitsuhiro Sato, Masahiro Suetsugu, Kengo Sakai
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An image forming apparatus includes a main body including main body connectors, a cartridge tray including photosensitive drums, and cartridges mounted to the cartridge tray. Each of the cartridges includes a developing roller, a developing container containing toner, and a memory including a memory contact surface. The cartridges are removable from the cartridge tray in a state where the cartridge tray is in a drawn-out position. In a state where the cartridge tray is in a housed position, the memory contact surface faces upward and contacts one of the main body connectors, and each of the cartridges is movable between a contact position where the developing roller contacts one of the photosensitive drums and a separation position where the developing roller separates from one of the photosensitive drums while the one of the main body connectors and the memory contact surface contact each other.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
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