US 12,092,986 B2
Image forming apparatus
Eiichiro Teshima, Kawasaki (JP); and Yoshiteru Kaida, Numazu (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/340,305.
Application 18/340,305 is a continuation of application No. 17/518,084, filed on Nov. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,726,427.
Application 17/518,084 is a continuation of application No. 16/284,447, filed on Feb. 25, 2019, granted, now 11,194,283, issued on Dec. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-034928 (JP), filed on Feb. 28, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0333506 A1, Oct. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. G03G 21/16 (2006.01)
CPC G03G 21/1633 (2013.01) [G03G 21/1647 (2013.01); G03G 21/1676 (2013.01); G03G 2221/1654 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, comprising:
a cartridge detachably mounted to a main body of the image forming apparatus, the cartridge having a first memory configured to store information regarding the cartridge;
a door movable between an open state in which access to the cartridge mounted to the main body is allowed and a closed state in which access to the cartridge mounted to the main body is prevented;
a locking member movable between a first position as a locked state in which the door in the closed state is locked in the closed state and a second position as an unlocked state in which the door in the closed state is not locked in the closed state;
a control unit configured to switch a state of the locking member between the locked state and the unlocked state; and
a second memory configured to store information regarding the locked state and information regarding the mounted cartridge,
wherein in a case in which the control unit refers to the information in the second memory and the information regarding the locked state indicates that a state of the locking member is the locked state, and the control unit refers to the information regarding the cartridge obtained from the first memory of the cartridge mounted to the main body and the information regarding the mounted cartridge stored in the second memory, and the information from the first memory and the information from the second memory indicate different cartridges, the control unit controls a position of the locking member to be the second position.