Communication connector and image forming apparatus

摘要

The present invention provides a communication connector arranged on an image-forming apparatus body to provide communications with an information storage device including a guide portion and installed on a detachable device. The connector includes a body terminal which, when the detachable device is attached to the apparatus body, contacts a contact terminal of the information storage device, and a body projection extending in a moving direction of the detachable device and having a slope at its distal end. The body terminal is arranged on the body projection and configured not to project further than the slope, to be exposed to outside from a portion other than the slope, and to contact the contact terminal inside the guide portion when the body projection is inserted thereinto. An inclination angle θ of an end portion of the slope is not smaller than an inclination angle θ1 of the slope.

主权项

1. A communication connector for use with an image-forming apparatus body to make communications with an information storage device including a guide portion and installed on a detachable device possible, the communication connector comprising:
a body terminal configured to, when the detachable device is attached to the image-forming apparatus body, contact a contact terminal of the information storage device; and a body projection extending in a moving direction of the detachable device, having a distal end formed as a conical surface, and being insertable into the guide portion, the body projection having a central axis extending in the moving direction wherein the body terminal is mounted on the body projection and disposed not to project further than the conical surface, to be exposed to outside from a portion other than the conical surface, and to contact the contact terminal mounted inside the guide portion when the body projection is inserted into the guide portion, the body terminal having two contact surfaces which are on different sides of the central axis of the body projection, and the body terminal is configured to satisfy following relationship: θ≧θ1, where θ is an angle between a tangent extending through an end portion of the body terminal on a side of the conical surface and a center line of the body projection and ƒ1 is an angle between the conical surface and the center line.