INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, REMOVABLE DEVICE, DEVELOPER CONTAINER AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC G03G21/16 

FIELD: physics.

SUBSTANCE: disclosed is a group of inventions which includes an image forming apparatus, an information storage device mounted in a removable device configured to be removably installed in the housing of the image forming apparatus, a removable device which is removably installed in the housing of the image forming apparatus and is any one of a cartridge with toner inside it, a photomechanical cartridge with toner inside it and an ink cartridge with ink inside it, as well as a developer container which is removably installed in the housing of the image forming apparatus in a state in which the longitudinal direction of the developer container is horizontal and which holds developer inside it. Also provided is a substrate on which a terminal is formed, which comes into contact with a terminal on the side of the housing which is installed in the image forming apparatus for data communication, and an opening which is engaged with a protruding section, installed in the housing of the image forming apparatus. An earthing terminal which is linked to the earthing terminal of the side of the housing, formed on the protruding section of the housing of the image forming apparatus, is formed in an opening formed on the substrate.

EFFECT: providing an information storage device, a removable device, a developer container and an image forming apparatus in which electrical damage to the information storage device is hard even if a contact-type information storage device is installed in the removable device which is removably installed in the housing of the image forming apparatus, as well as a removable device, a developer container and an image forming apparatus in which lack of contact, caused by failure to position with the terminal of the side of the housing of the socket of the housing of the image forming apparatus is difficult, even if the contact-type information storage device is installed in the removable device which is removably installed in the housing of the image forming apparatus, thereby ensuring the right alignment of contact sections.

35 cl, 88 dwg