US 11,982,973 B2
Developing cartridge
Keita Shimizu, Nagoya (JP); and Haruka Kizu, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/192,041.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-114289 (JP), filed on Jul. 15, 2022; and application No. 2022-195455 (JP), filed on Dec. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0019797 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. G03G 21/18 (2006.01); G03G 15/08 (2006.01); G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1885 (2013.01) [G03G 15/0863 (2013.01); G03G 21/1647 (2013.01); G03G 21/1875 (2013.01); G03G 21/1878 (2013.01); G03G 15/0813 (2013.01); G03G 15/0818 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A developing cartridge comprising:
a housing configured to accommodate a developer;
a developing roller rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction, the developing roller being at one end portion of the housing in a second direction intersecting the first direction;
a storage medium having an electrical contact surface;
a holder located at one end portion of the housing in the first direction, the holder holding the electrical contact surface, the holder being movable with respect to the housing between a first position and a second position different from the first position in a third direction intersecting the electrical contact surface; and
a roller rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction, the roller including a first roller protrusion extending in the first direction, the first roller protrusion being contactable with the holder,
wherein the first roller protrusion is movable between a third position and a fourth position in accordance with rotation of the roller,
wherein the holder is movable in accordance with movement of the first roller protrusion, and
wherein, as the first roller protrusion moves from the third position to the fourth position, the holder moves from the first position to the second position.