THE IMAGE FORMING DEVICE AND THE CARTRIDGE Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC G03G15/00 

FIELD: printing industry.

SUBSTANCE: inventions group includes a cartridge assembly including a cartridge mounted detachably in an image forming device for an image forming on a recording material, and a cartridge removably mounted to an image forming device. At that this cartridge installed detachably to the image forming device includes a main assembly and a support element which is movable in a state in which a supporting element supports a cartridge with the possibility of removing, between the first part, where the supporting element is positioned inside the main assembly, and the noted cartridge is provided in the image forming position, and the second position retracted from the first position by moving relative to the main assembly. The noted cartridge comprises: the first part to be positioned for its support by engagement with the first positioning part provided in the main assembly, when the support element is in the first position, and the first part, which must be adjusted for rotation the noted cartridge suppressing relative to the first positioning part by the engagement with the first regulating part provided in the main assembly, when the support element is in the first position, wherein, when the supporting element moves from the first position to the second position, the noted first part to be adjusted, is moved to the downstream side of the first regulating part with respect to the direction of supporting element movement for disconnexion with the first regulating part.

EFFECT: image forming device and cartridge can perform cartridge positioning in the main assembly of the device with high accuracy and at low cost.

20 cl, 19 dwg