Patent ID: 8249482

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a body frame; a slide frame slidably supported by the body frame so as to be pulled out from the body frame in a first direction; a plurality of image forming cartridges configured to be mounted on and dismounted from the slide frame in a second direction crossing the first direction; and a plurality of wire electrode members mounted on the slide frame and aligned so as to correspond to the image forming cartridges when mounted on the slide frame in a one-to-one fashion, wherein each of the wire electrode members that includes a body-side wire contact portion and a cartridge-side wire contact portion, the body-side wire contact portion protruding towards the body frame and 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 wire contact portion configured to protrude towards a corresponding image forming cartridge when mounted on the slide frame and configured to be in contact with an image forming cartridge contact provided on the corresponding image forming cartridge when mounted on the slide frame so as to be electrically connected to the image forming cartridge contact.