Patent ID: 7184685

Claim:
A process cartridge, comprising: a case; an image carrier rotatably provided at the case, a surface of the image carrier being divided into four sections by two perpendicular lines that are perpendicular to a center of the image carrier; a charger that is disposed on the case along the surface of the image carrier and that uniformly charges the surface of the image carrier, wherein only a single charger is used in the process cartridge; a developing member that is disposed on the case along the surface of the image carrier and that supplies a developing agent to the image carrier, wherein the charger is located at a first section of the four sections and the developing member is located at a second section of the four sections that is opposite to the first section; and a hopper that stores the developing agent supplied to the developing member, wherein a height of the image carrier is less than or equal to a height of the hopper.