US 12,242,213 B2
Cartridge including holder that holds electrical contact surface and has hole overlapped with the same
Shinya Kusuda, Nagoya (JP); Nao Itabashi, Nagoya (JP); Masaaki Furukawa, Nagoya (JP); Shuhei Hatano, Komaki (JP); and Yasuo Fukamachi, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/162,084.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-014343 (JP), filed on Feb. 1, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0244156 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 21/18 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 15/0875 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0863 (2013.01); G03G 21/1878 (2013.01); G03G 21/1885 (2013.01); G03G 21/1853 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0665 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0697 (2013.01); G03G 2215/0872 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1823 (2013.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cartridge comprising:
a housing;
a storage medium including an electrical contact surface; and
a storage medium holder holding the storage medium, the storage medium holder being positioned at one end portion of the housing in a first direction, the storage medium holder being movable relative to the housing,
wherein the storage medium holder comprises:
a first holder holding the electrical contact surface;
a second holder positioned spaced away from the first holder in a second direction crossing the first direction; and
an elastic member positioned between the first holder and the second holder, the elastic member being expandable and shrinkable in the second direction,
wherein the first holder has a first hole, the first hole being a through hole penetrating the first holder in the second direction,
wherein the entire second holder and the entire elastic member are positioned between the first hole and the housing in the first direction, and
wherein the first hole is overlapped with the electrical contact surface as viewed in the second direction.