Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for preventing an information storage device from falling from a removable device
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Application No.: US14298601Application Date: 2014-06-06
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Publication No.: US09069287B2Publication Date: 2015-06-30
- Inventor: Yasufumi Takahashi , Kunihiro Ohyama , Masayuki Yamane , Takeshi Uchitani , Tadashi Hayakawa , Takuji Takahashi , Shouji Okabe , Akira Shinshi , Yuichiro Ueda , Masaki Takahashi , Yuuki Satoh
- Applicant: Yasufumi Takahashi , Kunihiro Ohyama , Masayuki Yamane , Takeshi Uchitani , Tadashi Hayakawa , Takuji Takahashi , Shouji Okabe , Akira Shinshi , Yuichiro Ueda , Masaki Takahashi , Yuuki Satoh
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
- Current Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2010-134560 20100611; JP2011-062216 20110322; JP2011-062283 20110322; JP2011-084820 20110406; JP2011-087786 20110411
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/08 ; G03G21/16 ; G03G21/18 ; G03G21/00 ; B41J2/175

Abstract:
An information storage device installed in a removable device configured to be removably installed in an image forming apparatus body, includes: an information storage unit that stores information communicated between the image forming apparatus body and the removable device; a terminal that comes in contact with a body side terminal; and a substrate that holds the information storage unit and the terminal and includes a hole configured to be engaged with a protruding section installed in the image forming apparatus body. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals each including one of a plurality of metallic plates arranged in a transverse direction thereof. An earth terminal, which comes in contact with a body side earth terminal formed in the protruding section, is formed in the hole. The hole is disposed at a position sandwiched between two metallic plates among the plurality of metallic plates.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140286670A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PREVENTING AN INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE FROM FALLING FROM A REMOVABLE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-09-25
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