CN217484707U

CN217484707U - Processing box

Info

Publication number: CN217484707U
Application number: CN202123102049.2U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 刘小兵; 晏梅; 谢鹏; 龚小敏; 邹兴
Original assignee: Jiangxi Yibo Electronic Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Jiangxi Yibo Electronic Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-12-12
Filing date: 2021-12-11
Publication date: 2022-09-23
Anticipated expiration: 2031-12-11
Also published as: CN114624975A

Abstract

The utility model discloses a processing box, which comprises a shell; a photosensitive unit in which a photosensitive drum is accommodated; a developing unit in which a developing roller is accommodated; the drum driving part is arranged at the driving end of the shell and is used for driving the photosensitive drum to rotate; a chip; the chip is characterized in that the chip is supported by a chip holder, the chip holder is movably arranged on the shell, and an elastic component is arranged between the chip holder and the shell.

Description

Processing box

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a detachable installs processing box and a chip recycle's method in the electrophotographic image forming apparatus.

Background

In an electrophotographic image forming apparatus (hereinafter simply referred to as "image forming apparatus"), an electrophotographic photosensitive member serving as an image bearing member, which is generally drum-shaped, i.e., a photosensitive drum, is uniformly charged. Next, the charged photosensitive drum is selectively exposed to form an electrostatic latent image (electrostatic image) on the photosensitive drum. After that, the electrostatic latent image formed on the photosensitive drum is developed into a toner image with toner serving as a developer. The toner image formed on the photosensitive drum is transferred to a recording medium (e.g., recording paper or plastic sheet), and the toner image transferred to the recording medium is then heated or pressed, so that the toner image is fixed to the recording medium, and thus the image is printed.

Such image forming apparatuses generally require toner replenishment and maintenance of various process units. In order to facilitate replenishment and maintenance of toner, a process cartridge in which a photosensitive drum, a charging unit, a developing unit, a cleaning unit, and the like are combined in a frame and which is detachably mounted to an image forming apparatus main body is practically used.

This process cartridge system can significantly enhance operability because a user can perform maintenance operations by himself, thereby providing an image forming apparatus excellent in usability. Therefore, this process cartridge system is widely used in image forming apparatuses.

The existing process cartridge is used as a consumable part in an image forming apparatus, and needs to be replaced with a new process cartridge after the process cartridge has finished its service life, but the electronic chip with harmful garbage on the finished process cartridge can be reused on a new process cartridge after the process cartridge has finished its service life.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a process cartridge which can normally mount a chip detached from an old process cartridge exhausted from the life.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a method of detaching a chip from an existing old process cartridge and mounting the chip on a new process cartridge.

The utility model discloses a realize through following technical scheme:

a method of recycling a chip, the chip being supportable by a chip holder on an old process cartridge and being usable in a new process cartridge, the new process cartridge being provided with a chip holder mounting portion, the method comprising:

detaching at least a portion of the chip holder containing the chip from the old process cartridge;

at least a part of the chip holder containing the chip is mounted in the chip holder mounting portion of the new process cartridge.

Preferably, the chip holder is broken by using a pair of scissors to separate the chip holder from the used process cartridge when the chip holder is detached.

Preferably, the chip holder mounting portion of the new process cartridge includes a chip holder accommodating portion in which an elastic member is mounted before the step of mounting the chip holder containing the chip in the chip holder accommodating portion.

Preferably, after the step of mounting the chip holder containing the chip in the chip holder accommodating portion, a chip holder cover plate is mounted on a new process cartridge so as to cover at least a part of the chip holder.

A process cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, includes

A housing;

a photosensitive unit in which a photosensitive drum is accommodated;

a developing unit in which a developing roller is accommodated;

the drum driving part is arranged at the driving end of the shell and is used for driving the photosensitive drum to rotate;

a chip;

the chip is supported by a chip holder, the chip holder is movably mounted on the shell, and an elastic member is arranged between the chip holder and the shell.

Preferably, the casing is provided with a chip holder accommodating part in which the chip holder is mounted and a chip holder cover plate covering at least a part of the chip holder to prevent the chip holder from being separated from the chip holder accommodating part.

Preferably, chip holding portion department is provided with first joint portion, second joint portion, chip seat apron detachable joint is in first joint portion with on the second joint portion.

Preferably, the chip holder is provided with a guide rib, and the casing is provided with a chip holder installation guide part matched with the guide rib.

Preferably, an electrical adapter is provided on the housing, the electrical adapter being in electrical contact with a chip contact of the chip.

Preferably, the electrical adaptor is provided with at least one bend.

After the technical scheme is adopted, the utility model provides a but the processing box of mobile installation chip, its chip that can normally install and pull down from old processing box to in the new processing box.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a structure in which a cover is opened in a conventional image forming apparatus;

fig. 2 is a schematic view of a structure in which a cover is opened and a process cartridge is mounted in an image forming apparatus in the related art;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of a structure in which a cover is closed and a process cartridge is mounted in an image forming apparatus in the related art;

fig. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a first view angle of a conventional process cartridge;

FIG. 5 is a schematic perspective view of a second perspective view of a conventional process cartridge;

FIG. 6 is a schematic perspective view showing a chip holder cut out from a conventional process cartridge by using a pair of cutting pliers;

FIG. 7 is a schematic perspective view of a first viewing angle in the process cartridge according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic perspective view showing a second perspective view of a process cartridge according to embodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a schematic view showing an exploded structure of a cartridge according to embodiment 1 of the present invention at a chip mounting position;

FIG. 10 is an exploded view of a process cartridge according to embodiment 1 of the present invention, showing another view angle of a chip mounting position

FIG. 11 is a perspective view showing a partial structure of a chip mounting position in a process cartridge according to embodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a schematic view showing an exploded structure of a chip mounting position in a process cartridge according to embodiment 2 of the present invention, when viewed from a first perspective;

FIG. 13 is a schematic view showing an exploded structure of a chip mounting position in a process cartridge according to embodiment 2 of the present invention, when viewed from a second viewing angle;

fig. 14 is an exploded view of the chip mounting position of the process cartridge according to embodiment 2 of the present invention when viewed from a third viewing angle.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Example 1

First, as shown in fig. 1 to 4, there is a conventional process cartridge B and image forming apparatus, an apparatus main body a of which includes an openable cover 101, a cartridge pressing member 106, a cartridge pressing spring 105, a driving part 104, an upper rail 102, a lower rail 103. The process cartridge B is mounted into the image forming apparatus by the guidance of the upper rail 102 and the lower rail 103, and by the closing of the cover 101, a cartridge pressing member 106 attached to the cover falls between the process cartridge B and a cartridge pressing spring 105, and the cartridge pressing spring 105 urges the process cartridge B by the cartridge pressing member 106 so that the process cartridge B comes into contact with a cartridge positioning portion (not shown in the drawings) in the image forming apparatus to position the process cartridge B in the image forming apparatus. The driving member 104 is for driving a rotating member such as a photosensitive drum in the process cartridge to rotate.

As shown in fig. 4 and 5, the conventional process cartridge B includes a casing 1, a photosensitive drum 2, a developing roller 3, a handle 6, a drum driving part 7, a developing roller driving part 8, a chip 4, and a chip holder 5. Wherein, in the longitudinal direction of the process cartridge, the conductive end of the casing 1 where the chip 4 is located and the driving end of the casing 1 where the drum driving part 7 and the developing roller driving part 8 are located are opposite sides. In this prior art, the chip 4 is attached to the chip holder 5 by means of glue, and the chip holder 5 is also difficult to detach from the process cartridge. Since the process cartridge in the related art is given to the end user along with the image forming apparatus when the image forming apparatus is first sold, the end user needs to purchase a new process cartridge to replace it when the end user comes to the end of the life of the process cartridge. However, the chip 4 in the process cartridge whose life is ended at this time is not disabled by the reception of the life of the process cartridge, but can continue to be replaced in a new process cartridge to continue the operation. On the other hand, the chip is used as a component for information communication between the processing box and the imaging device, and the processing box is not recognized by the imaging device without the chip, so that the chip on the old processing box needs to be detached and installed on a new processing box for recycling in order to protect the environment and reduce the manufacturing cost of the processing box and the use cost of a user.

The utility model provides a process cartridge and chip recycle's method, this process cartridge can install the chip that takes off from old process cartridge. As shown in fig. 6, is an example of a method of removing a chip from an existing old process cartridge, which is suitable for an end user operation. The chip holder 5 of the used process cartridge includes chip supporting protrusions 5a, chip guards 5b, the chip supporting protrusions 5a protruding from a guide plane 1a formed on the casing, and the chip guards 5b surrounding the periphery of the chip 4 to protect the chip 4. The specific operation method for taking out the chip 4 is to use a pair of cutting pliers, by holding the handle 51 of the cutting pliers by a user, applying a force to the handle 51, controlling the pliers mouth 52 to cut off the chip holder 5 from the guiding plane 1a, and the guiding plane 1a is used for guiding an end user to cut off the chip holder 5 from a correct position on the shell. The cut-out chip holder 5 is similar to the chip holder 12 of fig. 9, which will be described later.

As shown in fig. 7 to 10, the process cartridge of the present invention is substantially the same as the conventional process cartridge, and the main difference is that the structure of the mounting portion of the chip 4 is different. The processing box provided by the utility model has the same functions as the existing processing box, and has similar structure and adopts the same reference numerals. The embodiment 1 of the utility model provides a processing box includes casing 1, sensitization drum 2, developer roll 3, handle 6, drum drive disk assembly 7, developer roll drive disk assembly 8, chip 4, and wherein the positional relationship of each parts is the same with the processing box among the prior art. In the longitudinal direction of the casing 1, the conductive end where the chip 4 is located and the driving end where the drum driving part 7 and the developing roller driving part 8 are located are opposite ends. When the process cartridge is mounted in the image forming apparatus, the handle 6 is located at an upper side of the process cartridge, the chip 4 is located at a lower side of the process cartridge, and the electrical contact surface of the chip 4 is disposed obliquely to the direction of gravity in the direction of gravity. One example of the chip mounting portion of the process cartridge includes a base support portion 10, an elastic member 11, a chip holder 12, and a chip holder cover 9. Wherein the base support portion 10 includes a snap hole 10a and an elastic member support portion 10b, and the chip holder protective cover 9 includes a snap 9a, a chip holder escape prevention restricting portion 9b, a chip holder accommodating portion 9c, and a chip holder mounting guide portion 9 d. The utility model provides a chip holder 12 is close with the 5 overall dimension of chip holder who cuts from current processing box to make current chip holder 5 can be general the utility model provides a chip holder 12. The utility model discloses chip holder 12 on the processing box can support chip 4, including direction rib 12d, chip holder bottom 12c, chip guardrail 12b is when the chip guardrail that sets up around chip 4 installs. When installing the chip base 12, firstly, install the chip base 12 into the chip base accommodating part 9c through the chip base installation guide part 9d, and then install the chip base protective cover 9 accommodating the chip base 12 on the base supporting part 10, the buckle 9a is inserted into the buckle hole 10a and mutually matched to install the chip base protective cover 9 to the base supporting part 10, and meanwhile, the buckle 9a can be prevented from being separated from the base supporting part 10. The utility model discloses well chip holder 12 can be preinstalled in the chip holder accommodation portion, also can cancel the installation of chip holder 12, and the chip holder 5 that cuts off from old processing box is directly installed in chip holder protecting cover 9 by end user's installation, and this kind of design can increase the utility model discloses the application scope of processing box, for example, can not install the chip in advance on the chip holder 12, when the terminal customer takes off chip 4 on the old processing box alone through other modes, can install chip 4 in order to utilize the chip once more in chip holder 12 that does not have the chip, consequently, can not install the chip on the chip holder 12. The chip protection cover 9 covers the chip holders 5,12 and can accommodate the chip holder 12. On the other hand, especially when the user separately removes the chip mounted on the chip holder 12, an additional chip stopper (not shown) may be provided on the chip cover 9 for preventing the chip 4 on the chip holder 12 from falling off.

The holder accommodating portion 9c of the holder cover 9 is configured to guide the mounting of the chip holder 12 by the holder mounting guide portion 9d, and the shape of the holder bottom portion 5c may become indeterminate because the chip holder 5 cut out from the used cartridge may be deformed, more specifically, the holder bottom portion 5c of the chip holder 5 opposed to the chip guard rail 5b may be deformed during the cutting process, and thus, the holder accommodating portion 9c is configured to allow the deformed holder bottom portion 5c to be normally mounted, wherein the holder accommodating portion 9c accommodates only the front end portion of the chip holder 5, the holder bottom portion 5c of the chip holder 5 does not enter the holder accommodating portion 9c, and the front end portion of the chip holder 5 is a portion including the chip guard rail 5b, but not limited thereto, and other configurations may be employed such as forming the holder bottom portion 5c of the holder accommodating portion 9c to be a portion larger than the front end portion of the holder 5 to accommodate the chip holder 5 In terms of larger external dimensions, the configuration in which the bottom portion 5c of the chip holder is deformed may be applied as long as it is ensured that the front end portion of the chip holder 5 enters and positions the chip holder 5, and the positioning of the chip holder 5 specifies the final position of the chip holder 5 with respect to the housing 1, which will be described later. In a preferred embodiment, the chip recycling method further comprises the step of mounting the chip holder cut from the old process cartridge in the chip cover.

The elastic member 11 is disposed between the base support portion 10 and the chip holders 5,12, one end of which abuts the chip holders 5,12 and the other end of which abuts the base support portion 10, which is used for forcedly pushing the chip holders 5,12 to maintain the abutting of the chip holders 5,12 and the chip protecting cover 9, and is used for compensating the shape dimension error of the chip holders 5,12, even if the chip holders 5,12 are changed in their outer dimensions by shearing, the chip holders 5,12 can be properly abutted against the chip protective cover 9 by the elastic stroke compensation of the elastic member 11, and by the cooperation of the elastic member 11 and the chip protective cover 9, the chip holders 5,12 can be stably positioned in the chip protective cover 9, the chip protective cover 9 is mounted on the base support 10 and positioned, therefore, the position of the chip 4 with respect to the housing 1 is correctly positioned, and stable contact with the imaging device is possible.

Example 2

Next, embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described, and this embodiment is different from embodiment 1 in the mounting manner and the mounting position of the chip holder 5.

As shown in fig. 11 to 14, in embodiment 2 of the present invention, the processing box is provided with a chip holder accommodating portion 16 and an electrical adaptor 14, the chip holder accommodating cavity 16 is used for accommodating the chip holders 5 and 12, the electrical adaptor is used for electrically contacting with the imaging device, and the electrical adaptor electrically connects the upper chip contacts 4a and 4b of the chip 4. Compared with embodiment 1, the design can avoid the chip holder installation structure arranged at the position electrically contacted with the imaging device, and the local accommodating space of the imaging device at the position electrically contacted with the imaging device is small, so that the structural arrangement of the processing box at the position electrically contacted with the imaging device needs to be very compact, the difficulty of product design is increased, and the problem that the chip holder installation structure cannot be normally electrically contacted with all matched imaging devices due to the local position is also possible. The process cartridge chip 4 in this embodiment has a plurality of electrical contacts, specifically a first chip contact 4a and a second chip contact 4b, and the electrical interposer 14 has a first electrical interposer 14a electrically connected to the first chip contact 4a and a second electrical interposer 14b electrically connected to the second chip contact 4a, respectively. Preferably, the first electrical interposer 14a is a conductive metal sheet having a bent shape, with a chip contact 14a1, an intermediate bent portion 14a2, an electrical contact 14a3, wherein the chip contact portion 14a1 extends into the chip holder receiving portion 16 to electrically contact the first chip contact 4a of the chip 4, the electrical contact portion 14a3 is electrically contacted with an electrical contact of an imaging device, the middle bent portion 14a2 connects the chip contact portion 14a1 and the electrical contact portion 14a3, the embodiment employs the middle bent portion 14a2 for design convenience, the intermediate bend 14a2 is not essential, however, and the first electrical interposer 14a may also consist directly of the chip contact 14a1 and the electrical contact 14a3, in which case, the chip contact 14a1 and the electrical contact 14a3 form a bent shape, i.e. the first electrical adapter 14a should have the shape of at least one bend. In this embodiment, the second electrical interposer 14b has the same structure as the first electrical interposer, and also includes a chip contact portion 14b1, an intermediate bending portion 14b2, and an electrical contact portion 14b3, and the structure of each portion thereof is the same as that of the first electrical interposer 14a, and will not be described herein again.

A first clamping portion 17 and a second clamping portion 18 are arranged near a chip accommodating portion 16 on the casing 1, and a chip holder cover plate 13 is detachably clamped on the first clamping portion 17 and the second clamping portion 18, specifically, the chip holder cover plate 13 has a first clamped portion 13a, a second clamped portion 13b and a cover plate main body portion 13c, the first clamped portion 13a and the second clamped portion 13b are arranged on the cover plate main body portion 13c in a protruding manner, preferably, the first clamped portion 13a and the second clamped portion 13b are arranged on two opposite ends of the cover plate main body portion 13c, the first clamped portion 13a is in an elastic buckle structure, a hole structure is arranged on the first clamped portion 13a, the second clamped portion 13b is in a protruding plate structure, the first clamping portion 17 is a protruding portion matched with the hole structure of the first clamped portion 13b, the second clamping portion 18 is a hole matched with the second clamped portion 13b, during installation, the second engaged portion 13b is inserted into the second engaging portion 18, and then the cover plate of the chip carrier is fastened to the casing of the processing box by using the elastic fastening structure of the first engaged portion 13a and the first engaging portion 16.

An elastic member 15 is arranged between the chip holders 5,12 and the chip holder cover plate 13, one end of the elastic member is abutted against the chip holders 5,12, the other side of the elastic member is abutted against the chip holder cover plate 13, and the chip contact on the chip 4 is in pressure contact with the electrical adaptor 14 through the elastic force of the elastic member 15, so that the stable electrical contact between the chip 4 and the electrical adaptor 14 can be ensured.

The above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention in its corresponding aspects.

Claims

1. A process cartridge detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus, includes

A housing;

a photosensitive unit in which a photosensitive drum is accommodated;

a developing unit in which a developing roller is accommodated;

a chip;

the chip is characterized in that the chip is supported by a chip holder, the chip holder is movably arranged on the shell, and an elastic component is arranged between the chip holder and the shell.

2. A process cartridge according to claim 1, wherein a chip holder accommodating portion in which the chip holder is mounted and a chip holder cover plate covering at least a part of the chip holder to prevent the chip holder from coming off the chip holder accommodating portion are provided on the casing.

3. A process cartridge according to claim 2, wherein said chip holder accommodating portion is provided with a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion, and said chip holder cover plate is detachably engaged with said first engaging portion and said second engaging portion.

4. A process cartridge according to claim 1, wherein a guide rib is provided on said chip holder, and a chip holder mounting guide portion which engages with said guide rib is provided on said casing.

5. A process cartridge according to claim 1, wherein an electrical adaptor is provided on said housing, said electrical adaptor being in electrical contact with a chip contact of said chip.

6. A process cartridge according to claim 5, wherein said electrical adaptor is provided with at least one bent portion.