Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Tatsuro Yokoi

Osamu Takahashi

Masaaki Wakizaka

Koji Akagi

Seiya Sato

Shinta Sugiura

Keita Inoue

Toshinori Araki

An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a drum cartridge removably attached to the main body, and a belt unit removably attached to the main body. The main body includes a drum power supply, a belt power supply, and a controller configured to start supplying power from the drum power supply to a drum memory of the drum cartridge, start supplying power from the belt power supply to a belt memory of the belt unit, stop supplying the power from the drum power supply to the drum memory after starting supplying the power from the drum power supply to the drum memory, and stop supplying the power from the belt power supply to the belt memory after starting supplying the power from the belt power supply to the belt memory.

Image forming apparatus, method, and computer-readable medium for preventing failures and errors in drum memory and belt memory due to hot-swapping

An image forming apparatus includes a controller, a main body frame, a cartridge and a display. The cartridge includes a memory, a cartridge data terminal and a cartridge detection terminal. The controller includes a main body data terminal and a main body detection terminal. The main body data terminal is electrically connected to the cartridge data terminal. The main body detection terminal is electrically connected to the cartridge detection terminal in the case where the cartridge is attached to the main body frame. The controller is configured to perform determining whether the main body detection terminal and the cartridge detection terminal are electrically connected with each other. The controller is configured to perform displaying a determination result of the determining whether the main body detection terminal and the cartridge detection terminal are electrically connected with each other on the display.

Image forming apparatus to which cartridge is attachable and including controller capable of determining whether cartridge is attached to image forming apparatus

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Tatsuro Yokoi