| 摘要 |
<p>An electrophotographic image forming apparatus (1) including a main assembly (1A) of the apparatus to which a process cartridge (PY, PM, PC, PK) is detachably mountable, the apparatus includes a movable member (29) which movable from an outside toward an inside of the main assembly of the apparatus while supporting the process cartridge; an output contact provided in the main assembly of the apparatus; an intermediate electrical contact (45) for supplying a bias voltage received by the output contact to the process cartridge, the intermediate electrical contact being disposed at a downstream side of the movable member with respect to a moving direction of the movable member from the outside toward the inside and being elastically deformed in the moving direction, wherein the process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum (4), process means (5, 6b, 7) actable on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum,
an input electrical contact (41) which is at a leading end with respect to the moving direction in the state that process cartridge is supported on the movable member and which is contacted to the intermediate electrical contact in the state that process cartridge is supported on the movable member; and
a cartridge side contact portion (36L) which is provided at an upstream side with respect to the moving direction and which is contactable to the movable member (29 (29i)) when the input electrical contact is contacted by the intermediate electrical contact and is elastically urged by the intermediate electrical contact.</p> |
