Patent ID: 7929881

Claim:
A process cartridge comprising: a photosensitive drum; a photosensitive unit to which said photosensitive drum is rotatably mounted; and a protecting cover provided at an upper portion of said process cartridge when said process cartridge is mounted to an apparatus main body of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, said protecting cover being mountable to the apparatus main body, said protecting cover protecting said photosensitive drum exposed to an outside from the photosensitive unit, said protecting cover including: a guide portion that guides said process cartridge to an inside of the apparatus main body along a longitudinal direction of said photosensitive drum; a positioned portion provided at a leading end of said protecting cover in an insertion direction in which said process cartridge is inserted into the apparatus main body so that said positioned portion is abutted against a positioning portion provided on the apparatus main body to position said protecting cover with respect to the apparatus main body in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction; and an engaged portion provided at the leading end of said protecting cover in the insertion direction to be engaged with an engaging portion provided on the apparatus main body in the insertion direction to regulate detachment of said protecting cover from the apparatus main body toward an upstream side of said process cartridge, upstream with respect to the insertion direction.