Patent ID: 8041248
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a body frame; a slide frame supported by the body frame and configured to be slid out of the body frame in a first direction; a plurality of image forming cartridges, each of the image forming cartridges being mountable on and dismountable from the slide frame in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a plurality of electrode members mounted on the slide frame so as to correspond to the image forming cartridges in a one-to-one fashion; wherein each of the electrode members includes a body-side contact portion and a cartridge-side contact portion, the body-side contact portion configured to be in contact with a body frame contact provided on the body frame so as to be electrically connected to the body frame contact, the cartridge-side contact portion configured to be in contact with an image forming cartridge contact provided on the image forming cartridge so as to be electrically connected to the image forming cartridge contact, and wherein each image forming cartridge is configured so that a driving force is transferred from the body frame to one end of the image forming cartridge in a third direction that is perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction, and wherein the electrode member is disposed so as to face the other end of the image forming cartridge in the third direction.