Brother Industries, Ltd.

Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Masayoshi Mita

Toshiya Inada

Jihoon Kil

Takahiro Motoyama

Kowalski Marcin

Yuwen Wang

Junichi Hashimoto

Mitsuharu Hattori

Yasutake Yamaguchi

Keiichiro Egami

Jiro Suzuki

Kazuaki Ooka

Takaaki Oguchi

Hidenori Oka

Takuya Amaike

Go Iwasa

Shino Iida

Mitsuhara Hattori

Yoshifumi Nakamura

Air cleaner

Printer

A drum cartridge attachable to and detachable from a main frame of an image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive drum; a drum frame; and a drum contact. The photosensitive drum is rotatable about a drum axis extending in a first direction. A toner cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is attachable to and detachable from the drum frame. In a state where the toner cartridge is attached to the drum frame, the drum contact is movable in the first direction between: a separated position in which the drum contact is positioned away from the electrical contact surface; and a contacting position in which the drum contact is in contact with the electrical contact surface. The drum contact moves from the separated position to the contacting position in accordance with attachment of the drum cartridge to the main frame.

Drum cartridge including drum contact movable in accordance with attachment of drum cartridge to main frame

Toner cartridge

Magnifier for sewing machine

A developer cartridge includes a housing, a developing roller, an agitator, a memory, and a cover. The housing is configured to store toner therein and has one end portion and the other end portion in a first direction. The developing roller is rotatable about a first axis extending in the first direction. The agitator is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction. The agitator is positioned spaced apart from the developing roller. The memory includes an electrical contact surface. The electrical contact surface is positioned at an outer surface of the housing and at the one end portion of the housing in the first direction, and is disposed between the developing roller and the agitator in a second direction from the first axis toward the second axis. The cover has an opening open in the second direction and covers the electrical contact surface.

Developer cartridge with a cover covering a memory on an outer surface of a toner housing

Printer mailbox

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Nagoya, Japan

Masayoshi Mita