摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming unit for suppressing the cost of the image forming unit by receiving a signal of a communication means of an apparatus body side well even when a tag member is arranged at a position where the signal of the communication means of the apparatus body side is not directly received by position relationship of the communication means and an exchange body of the image forming apparatus, and to provide the image forming apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: At least one of a plurality of IC tags attached to a plurality of the exchange body stored in a frame body of the image forming unit is made a relay IC tag 10 that receives the signal from the communication means 101 provided for an apparatus body 100 and has a relay function for transmitting a received signal to the other IC tags 9a-9d. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |