Patent ID: 8265513

Claim:
An image-forming apparatus, comprising: a main body frame: a slide frame which is supported by the body frame such that the slide frame can be drawn out from the body frame along a predetermined slide direction; a plurality of image-forming cartridges configured to be arranged along the slide direction and configured to be attached to the slide frame in such a manner as to be removable along a predetermined attachment/detachment direction intersecting with the slide direction, each of the plurality of image-forming cartridges which has a developing roller disposed in such a manner as to face an electrostatic-latent-image-carrying body and an image-forming-cartridge contact; and a plurality of electrodes mounted on the slide frame in such a manner that each of the electrodes which corresponds to each of the image-forming cartridges in one-to-one fashion; wherein each of the electrodes includes a cartridge-side electrode configured to establish electrical connection to the developing roller by contacting the image-forming-cartridge contact; and each of the cartridge-side electrodes comprises: a coil portion having a shape of a coil spring, a latch portion provided at one end of the coil portion and configured to be supported by the slide frame, an arm portion provided at the other end of the coil portion and having a cartridge-side contact configured to contact the image-forming-cartridge contact.