Abstract: A high-precision marker, which is easy to manufacture, has a base material layer, a first layer which is laminated onto one surface of the base material layer, and which is observed in a first color, and a second layer which is partially laminated onto the first layer, is observed in a second color different from the first color, and partially conceals the first layer, wherein the first layer is observable in a region in which the second layer is not laminated, and the second layer is formed by a resist material.

Abstract: A resist topcoat composition and a method of forming patterns using the resist topcoat composition are provided. The resist topcoat composition includes a copolymer including a first structural unit represented by Chemical Formula M-1, a second structural unit represented by Chemical Formula M-2, and a third structural unit including at least one of structural units represented by Chemical Formula M-3A, Chemical Formula M-3B, Chemical Formula M-3C, and Chemical Formula M-3D; and a solvent.

Abstract: A silicon-containing resist underlayer film forming composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film to be used as an etching mask when a metal film containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Groups 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the periodic table of elements is dry-etched.

Abstract: A metal-containing photoresist developer composition includes an organic solvent, and a sulfonimide-based compound. A method of forming patterns utilizing the developer composition includes: coating a metal-containing resist composition on a substrate; coating a composition for removing edge beads from a metal-containing resist along an edge of the substrate; drying and heating the resultant to form a metal-containing resist layer on the substrate; exposing the metal-containing resist layer; and coating the metal-containing photoresist developer composition and developing the metal-containing photoresist developer composition.

Abstract: A method for enhancing a photoresist profile control includes applying a photoresist layer comprising a photoacid generator on an underlayer disposed on a material layer, exposing a first portion of the photoresist layer unprotected by a photomask to light radiation in a lithographic exposure process, providing a thermal energy to the photoresist layer in a post-exposure baking process, applying an electric field or a magnetic field while performing the post-exposure baking process, and drifting photoacid from the photoresist layer to a predetermined portion of the underlayer under the first portion of the photoresist layer.

Abstract: A photolithography system includes an optical assembly for delivering a collimated light beam with spatially uniform light across the beam to a substrate on a substrate mount. A multi-axis support assembly provides for angular and rotational control of relative positioning of the optical assembly and the substrate mount to allow fabrication of microfeatures with different draft angles.

Abstract: A method of coating an optical substrate with a transparent, electrically conductive coating includes depositing a semiconductor coating over a surface of an optical substrate, wherein the semiconductor coating has broadband optical transmittance. A doped semiconductor is applied in a pattern over the semiconductor coating. The doped semiconductor in the pattern is activated for electrical conductivity in the doped semiconductor.

Abstract: A composition configured for removing edge beads from metal-containing resists and/or as a developer composition of metal-containing resists is water-free and includes an organic solvent and at least one additive selected from among an amino acid-based compound, a sulfur-containing acid compound, and a sulfur-containing amine-based compound. A method of forming patterns using the composition includes coating a metal-containing resist composition on a substrate; coating the composition configured for removing edge beads from metal-containing resists of the present embodiments along edges of the substrate; drying and heating to form a metal-containing resist film on the substrate; exposing the metal-containing photoresist film; and developing the metal-containing resist film with the developer composition of metal-containing resists.

Abstract: A mask blank substrate has first and second main surfaces of 152 mm×152 mm-square and 6.35 mm-thick, in which in a pseudo TTV map obtained by adding up maps of the first and second main surfaces, a difference between highest and lowest heights of a TTV1 map, is ?35 nm, excluding a primary component when a plane function is derived, and a difference between highest and lowest heights of a TTV2 map, is ?25 nm, excluding primary and secondary components when a curved-surface function is derived, in fitting of the pseudo TTV map within a cross-shaped region formed in a case where a first rectangular region is overlapped with a second rectangular region, the first and second rectangular regions of 132 mm×104 mm being orthogonal to each other, and parallel to four sides of the main surfaces centered at intersections of diagonal lines of the main surfaces.

Abstract: In order to provide an information processing apparatus capable of obtaining a variation amount in an optical characteristic of an optical system provided in an exposure apparatus in consideration of a control for suppressing a temperature variation of the optical system, the information processing apparatus according to the present invention is configured to predict the variation amount in the optical characteristic of the optical system by inputting a target temperature of the optical system to a learning model, in which the learning model is a learning model obtained by machine learning.

Abstract: A method of cleaning a reticle includes applying ozone fluid over a surface of the reticle, and while the ozone fluid is over the surface of the reticle, irradiating the surface of the reticle with ultraviolet (UV) radiation for an irradiation time to treat the surface of the reticle. The method of cleaning the reticle further includes adjusting the irradiation time based on a reflected UV beam from the surface of the reticle.

Abstract: A substrate processing apparatus for performing a process of a substrate, including a substrate stage configured to hold a substrate when the process is performed, a temperature control mechanism configured to hold a substrate to be conveyed to the substrate stage and perform temperature control to a predetermined temperature, a conveyance mechanism configured to convey a substrate in the apparatus, and a control unit configured to control conveyance of a substrate in the apparatus, wherein when a waiting time until the substrate conveyed to a supply position is supplied to the substrate stage exceeds an upper limit time set in advance, the control unit conveys the substrate from the supply position to the temperature control mechanism by the conveyance mechanism.

Abstract: A holding apparatus includes a holding unit configured to hold an object, a phase change material arranged in the holding unit or on a holding surface for the object, which undergoes phase change between an amorphous phase and a crystalline phase and changes in volume with the phase change, and a control unit configured to control heating of the phase change material using a heating unit configured to heat the phase change material so as to deform the holding surface by causing volume change of the phase change material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a structure forming a part of an exposure apparatus that includes a stage configured to move on a base while holding an original, and a projection optical system configured to project a pattern image of the original onto a substrate, the structure comprising: a plate arranged between a moving path of the stage and the projection optical system; and a plurality of support members arranged extending along a lower surface of the plate and configured to support the plate by contacting the lower surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a substrate processing apparatus in which weight of a buffer module may be reduced compared to the apparatus in the related art.

Abstract: A processing liquid supply apparatus for supplying a processing liquid to a substrate processing apparatus including a liquid processing module configured to process a substrate with the processing liquid, comprising: a transfer region where a transfer mechanism configured to hold and transfer a container storing the processing liquid is provided, and a pair of supply regions provided to face each other via the transfer region, wherein a supporter configured to support the container loaded from an outside of the processing liquid supply apparatus and a connection pipe connected to the container supported by the supporter are provided in each of the pair of supply regions, and the processing liquid in the container supported by the supporter is supplied to the substrate processing apparatus via the connection pipe.

Abstract: A toner contains toner base particles, each containing a binder resin, a release agent, and a charge control agent, and an external additive, wherein the toner base particles have an average circularity of from 0.850 to 0.950, and the external additive contains at least an inorganic particle selected from the group consisting of barium sulfate, magnesium hydroxide, and magnesium oxide, each having an average circularity of from 350 to 1,000 nm.

Abstract: A two-component developer includes a carrier containing carrier particles and a toner containing toner particles. The carrier particles include carrier cores and coat layers covering the surfaces of the carrier cores. The coat layers contain silicone resin. The carrier particles have surfaces with a static friction coefficient of at least 0.10 and no greater than 0.22. The toner particles include toner mother particles and an external additive attached to the surfaces of the toner mother particles. The external additive includes resin particles. The resin particles have a number average primary particle diameter of at least 35 nm and no greater than 160 nm. The resin particles have a blocking rate of at least 17% by mass and no greater than 42% by mass, as measured using a mesh sieve with an opening of 75 ?m after 5-minite pressure application at a temperature of 160° C. and a pressure of 0.1 kgf/mm2.

Abstract: A support unit includes: a first support to support and position one end of a first shaft of a pressure unit, including a pressure rotator to apply pressure to an object, in each of: an assembly direction in which the pressure unit is assembled to the support unit; and an orthogonal direction orthogonal to each of the assembly direction and an axial direction of the first shaft; a second support having a groove supporting another end of the first shaft; and a third support supporting a second shaft of the pressure rotator. The first support, the second support, and the third support the pressure unit rotatable around the first shaft. The groove of the second support has an arc shape having a center on an axial center of the second shaft; and an opening at an entrance of the groove in the assembly direction.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image supporter, a charger, a toner image forming device, a transfer device, a detector, and a controller. The charger includes a charging member adjacent to the surface of the image supporter, and applies a voltage obtained by superimposing an AC voltage on a DC voltage to a charging member to thereby homogenously charge the surface of the image supporter. The toner image forming device forms a latent image provided to the image supporter and then develop the latent image. The transfer device transfers the toner image to a transfer body. The detector detects a resistance value of the transfer device. The controller estimates a saturation value of a surface potential of the image supporter, and then sets a peak value of the AC voltage which is applied by the charger to the charging member, in accordance with the saturation value estimated.

Abstract: A light source includes a light emitting element, and an optical system that directs light output from the light emitting element to a surface of a photosensitive member. An irradiation amount of light for forming a second electrostatic latent image is larger than an irradiation amount of light for forming a first electrostatic latent image. A position at which a propagation efficiency of light peaks in a scanning direction of the light is located between a center of an image height of the optical system and a surface area in which the second electrostatic latent image is formed out of the surface of the photosensitive member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a light-emitting chip, a substrate on which a plurality of light emitting chips are mounted, a controller, and a switch. The light-emitting chip includes a light-emitting portion, which emits light exposing a photosensitive drum surface based on supply of a driving current to the light-emitting portion, and a driving portion that drives the light-emitting portion. The controller controls the driving portion by transmitting a signal to the light-emitting chip and outputs a digital signal corresponding to a target amount of light of the light-emitting portion to the light-emitting chip. Based on a control signal from the controller, the switch switches a connection state between the voltage source and the D/A converter to a first state where the voltage source supplies the reference voltage to the D/A converter, and a second state where an electrical connection between the voltage source and the D/A converter is disconnected.

Abstract: A cartridge to which a toner container is detachably attachable includes a development roller, a storage unit to store toner to be carried by the development roller, an attachment portion, and first, second, and third contact portions on a bottom surface of the cartridge to be brought into contact with a horizontal plane. The cartridge can be oriented in a positioning direction in which the attachment portion is positioned above the storage unit and the cartridge contacts the horizontal plane. When the cartridge in the positioning direction is viewed in a gravity direction, a part of the attachment portion overlaps with a first region. The first region is surrounded by a first virtual line connecting the first and second contact portions, a second virtual line connecting the second and third contact portions, a third virtual line connecting the third and first contact portions, the first, second, and third contact portions.

Abstract: A developing device of developing a latent image formed on an image bearer includes a developing roller, a developer regulator of a round-bar shape, and a holder. The developing roller carries developer. The developer regulator faces the developing roller to regulate an amount of the developer carried on a surface of the developing roller. The holder has a first hole, a second hole, and a projection. An end of the developer regulator is inserted in the first hole. A shaft at an end of the developing roller is inserted in the second hole. The projection protrudes toward an inside of the at least one of the first hole or the second hole and holds the end of the developer regulator and the shaft.

Abstract: A toner cartridge is disclosed. A hole and a window are disposed on two sides of a cartridge body separately. A toner hopper is disposed in the cartridge body, and is configured to accommodate toner, and a supply opening exposed in the window is disposed at a position that is on the toner hopper and that faces the window. The first agitator is disposed in the toner hopper, and is configured to transport the toner in the toner hopper to the supply opening. A first hopper door is slidably disposed on a side that is of the toner hopper and that faces the window, a slot is disposed on the first hopper door, and the first hopper door may open or close the supply opening when sliding. The first clamping hook is disposed on the second side of the cartridge body.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a supply control portion and a setting processing portion. The supply control portion makes a switch between a first mode for supplying developer from a developer container attached to a specific attachment portion that is one of a plurality of attachment portions to which a plurality of developer containers corresponding to developer of a same color can be attached and a second mode for supplying the developer from the plurality of developer containers attached to the plurality of attachment portions sequentially or in parallel. The setting processing portion sets the specific attachment portion based on a user operation.

Abstract: Provided is a method of recycling a developing cartridge including a housing, a gear cover, a holder assembly, and a first screw. The method includes: a gear cover removing step of removing the gear cover having the holder assembly from the housing; a screw removing step of removing the first screw from the gear cover; a holder assembly removing step of removing the holder assembly from the gear cover; a first gear cover mounting step of mounting the gear cover on a jig; a holder assembly mounting step of mounting another holder assembly on the gear cover with the first screw; and a second gear cover mounting step of mounting the gear cover having the another holder assembly on the housing. In the first gear cover mounting step, another storage medium holder of the another holder assembly is restricted from moving relative to another holder cover thereof and the jig.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image former that includes an intermediate transferer, and a secondary transferer to which a transfer bias for secondarily transferring the toner image on the intermediate transferer to a continuous recording medium is applied; a conveyor that is arranged on a downstream side of the image former and conveys the continuous recording medium; and a hardware processor that controls a speed of the intermediate transferer and a speed of the continuous recording medium conveyed by the conveyor. The hardware processor controls a timing at which the transfer bias is applied to the secondary transferer, performs control such that the speed of the continuous recording medium is higher than the speed of the intermediate transferer, and starts application of the transfer bias after the secondary transferer is pressed against the intermediate transferer and before the primary transfer is started.

Abstract: In a fixing device, a heater heats an endless rotatable fixing belt. A retention member includes a groove for retaining a lubricant and retains the heater such that a surface on a front side comes into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt via the lubricant. A pressure member is pressed against the heater while the fixing belt is interposed therebetween and forms, with the fixing belt, a pressure region for heating and pressurizing a paper sheet onto which a toner image has been transferred. A guide guides the paper sheet to the pressure region. The guide causes the paper sheet to come into contact with the fixing belt at a position more on a downstream side of a rotation direction of the fixing belt than the groove, to guide the paper sheet to the pressure region.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a transfer portion, a fixing portion, a sensor, a duct, and an airflow generation portion. The transfer portion transfers a toner image to a sheet. The fixing portion fixes the toner image transferred to the sheet by the transfer portion on the sheet. The sensor senses the sheet on a downstream side of the transfer portion in a conveyance direction of the sheet and an upstream side of the fixing portion in the conveyance direction. The duct extends from an air intake port to an air blowing port. The air intake port is open on an upper surface of the image forming apparatus. The air blowing port is open toward the sensor. The airflow generation portion generates airflow that moves in the duct from the air intake port to the air blowing port.

Abstract: An image forming system includes: an image carrying element that is rotatably provided and carries an image; an image forming element that forms the image on the image carrying element using an image forming material containing at least an external additive; a transfer element that transfers the image carried by the image carrying element to a medium; a cleaning element having a plate shape, the cleaning element being disposed so that a leading end comes into contact with the image carrying element while being inclined in a direction opposite to a rotation direction of the image carrying element to clean a residue remaining on the image carrying element after a transfer operation by the transfer element; a maintenance element that forms, using the image forming element, a band-shaped maintenance image of the image forming material in a non-image formation region of the image carrying element, and regularly or irregularly supplies the maintenance image to the cleaning element in a state where the transfer oper

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, an input portion to which a kind of a pressure-bonding print which is a recording material on which an image is formed on a surface thereof and which is folded and bonded at the surface is inputted, a display portion, and a controller. The controller causes the display portion to display a message before the image is formed on the pressure-bonding print when a kind of the pressure-bonding print inputted by the input portion is a first kind such that an adhesive is applied to a first region of the surface and is not applied to a second region inside the first region in a case that the image is formed on the pressure-bonding print by the image forming portion.

Abstract: A control method for controlling a printing apparatus includes storing a static elimination setting value with respect to each sheet, printing an image on a sheet, and in a case where the static elimination setting value stored for the sheet is a numerical value, performing control to eliminate static from the sheet based on the numerical value by using a static elimination apparatus, and in a case where the setting value stored for the sheet is a setting value indicating that a setting value of a hardware setting unit of the static elimination apparatus is used, performing control to eliminate static from the sheet based on a setting value set by using the hardware setting unit.

Abstract: An image printed using toner is optically scanned. Whether the toner is authorized is determined by one or multiple of the following. A toner scatter pattern can be identified within the scanned image and whether the identified toner scatter pattern conforms to expected toner scatter patterns associated with authorized toner can be determined. A color within the scanned image can be identified and whether the identified color conforms to an expected corresponding color associated with the authorized toner can be determined. An image artifact within the scanned image associated with failure of a cartridge in which the toner is installed can be identified and whether the image artifact conforms to expected image artifacts associated with failure of an authorized cartridge in which the authorized toner is installed can be determined.

Abstract: An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet laminator, a post-processing apparatus, and circuitry. The sheet laminator includes a heater. The sheet laminator applies heat and pressure on a two-ply sheet in which a sheet medium is inserted while conveying the two-ply sheet. The post-processing apparatus performs a task. The circuitry is to calculate a task time taken for the task performed by of the post-processing apparatus, and perform one of increasing a temperature of the heater of the sheet laminator while the post-processing apparatus performs the task or maintaining the temperature of the heater of the sheet laminator while the post-processing apparatus performs the task, based on the task time in a productivity mode.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, and a bonding portion including a pressurizing member and configured to bond sheets together. The bonding portion is configured to, in a state in which a succeeding sheet is stacked on a sheet stack that has been bonded in a previous bonding operation, perform a next bonding operation to bond a first surface of an uppermost sheet of the bonded sheet stack to a second surface of the succeeding sheet opposing the first surface. An amount of bonding toner that the image forming portion applies on the first surface per unit area of the first surface is smaller than an amount of the bonding toner that the image forming portion applies on the second surface per unit area of the second surface.

Abstract: A belt driving mechanism rotates a rotating body provided in a rotating device around a transmission shaft, and includes a driving device provided adjacent to the rotating device and a bearing structure supporting the transmission shaft extending from the rotating device to the driving device through the support frame. The driving device includes a housing, a fixed frame, a driving pulley, a driven pulley, a belt and a circumference correction part. The housing is fixed to the support frame. The fixed frame is fixed in the housing. The driven pulley is fixed to the transmission shaft. The belt is wound around the driving pulley and the driven pulley. The bearing structure includes a first bearing part provided in the fixed frame and the second bearing part provided in the housing on an opposite side to the first bearing part with respect to the driven pulley.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a cleaning blade having an elastic member contacting a surface of the image bearer, the cleaning blade removing a residue on the surface of the image bearer, and a controller. In the image forming apparatus, the cleaning blade has a coating film of a lubricant formed on an edge contacting, at least, the image bearer, and the controller performs an initial coating film adjustment before an image is initially formed. In the image forming apparatus, the initial coating film adjustment includes driving the image bearer to rotate, sliding the image bearer and the cleaning blade, removing a portion of the coating film of the lubricant, which is formed on the cleaning blade, and exposing the edge of the cleaning blade.

Abstract: A toner container includes first and second storage portions, a protrusion portion, a male screw portion, an opening portion, and a first latch portion. The first storage portion is elongated in an insertion direction to an image forming apparatus. The protrusion portion protrudes in the insertion direction from an end portion of the first storage portion. The male screw portion is provided at an outer circumferential portion of the protrusion portion. The second storage portion includes a female screw portion and extends in the insertion direction from the protrusion portion. The opening portion is provided at an outer circumferential portion of the second storage portion. The first latch portion latches forward screwing of the second storage portion with respect to the first storage portion at a specific forward screwing amount with which the opening portion faces a vertical direction with respect to the first storage portion in an insertion attitude.

Abstract: A toner container includes a cylindrical portion, an opening portion, a shutter portion, a bias portion and a lock portion. The cylindrical portion is formed in a cylindrical shape elongated in an insertion direction with respect to an image forming apparatus. The opening portion is provided at an outer circumferential portion of the cylindrical portion. The shutter portion is provided to be movable between a cover position at which the shutter portion covers the opening portion on an outer side of the cylindrical portion and an evacuation position evacuated from the cover position toward an upstream side of the insertion direction. The bias portion biases the shutter portion in the insertion direction. The lock portion locks the shutter portion at the evacuation position.

Abstract: A powder collection container includes a powder collection port, a conveyor, and a swinging member. The powder collection port receives powder. The conveyor rotates in a specified direction to convey the powder and includes a shaft and a blade spirally wound around the shaft. The swinging member contacts the conveyor, is swingable, and has a plurality of overhang portions arranged in an axial direction of the swinging member. Each of the plurality of overhang portions having a bent portion bent toward the blade. The bent portion has a tip to contact the blade at least when the conveyor rotates in a direction opposite to the specified direction.

Abstract: Disclosed is a drawing apparatus including: a base member; and a drawing member that is attached so as to be capable of being drawn and pressed in a reciprocating direction with respect to the base member, wherein the base member has a couple application mechanism that applies a couple for correcting skewing of the drawing member with respect to the reciprocating direction to the drawing member as a reaction of a force by which the drawing member is pressed, and wherein the couple application mechanism is configured so that a distance between action lines of two forces generating the couple becomes large as a pressing amount of the drawing member with respect to the base member increases.

Abstract: An image formation apparatus according to an embodiment may include: an exposure unit configured, when a cover member is opened from a closed position to an open position, to move from a first position to a second position with respect to the cover member; and a lock mechanism. When the cover member is in the open position, the exposure unit is movable between the second position and a third position in which the angle of the exposure unit relative to the cover member is different from that in the second position. The lock mechanism locks a position of the exposure unit when the exposure unit is in the third position. The lock mechanism releases the lock of the position of the exposure unit, when the cover member is moved from the open position to the closed position in the state where the exposure unit is in the third position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a casing, an image forming unit, an outer cover, a first inner cover arranged to face an inner side of the outer cover in a closed state, the first inner cover being made of resin, a second inner cover arranged to face the inner side of the outer cover in the closed state, the second inner cover being made of resin, a first fan, and a second fan. The first inner cover includes a first duct configured to guide air taken in from an exterior of the image forming apparatus by rotation of the first fan to the image forming unit. The second inner cover includes a second duct configured to guide air taken in from the exterior of the image forming apparatus by rotation of the second fan to the image forming unit.

Abstract: An example image forming apparatus includes a main body including a cartridge chamber, a toner cartridge movable between a mounting position in which the toner cartridge is mounted in the cartridge chamber and a pop-up position in which the toner cartridge protrudes from the cartridge chamber, and a chamber door to open and close the cartridge chamber, wherein the chamber door is to switch to an open position to open the cartridge chamber in association with a pop-up operation of the toner cartridge.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a developing device removably supported by a support frame; a separation mechanism that moves the developing device so that a developing roller separates from a photoconductor drum before the developing device is removed from the support frame; a toner density detection sensor provided in a developing housing; and a relay board supported by the support frame and electrically connectable to the sensor. In a state in which the developing device is not being moved by the separation mechanism, the sensor is electrically connected to the relay board, and when the developing device is moved by the separation mechanism before the developing device is removed from the support frame, the sensor is separated from the relay board.

Abstract: A cartridge includes: a housing; a storage medium; and a holder. The storage medium has an electrical contact surface. The holder is movable relative to the housing. The holder includes: a first holder member; and a second holder member. The first holder member has a pawl portion and is configured to hold the electrical contact surface. The second holder member includes a corner portion. The pawl portion is engageable with the corner portion. The second holder member has a through-hole. An engagement part of the pawl portion engaging with the corner portion is accessible from outside the second holder member through the through-hole in a state where the pawl portion engages with the corner portion.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a frame member including a support surface and made of metal, an exposure unit disposed such that an emission direction in which the light is emitted to the image bearing member is inclined with respect to the support surface, a support member made of metal and configured to support the exposure unit that is in an inclined posture with respect to the support surface, and a positioning member made of resin and configured to be in contact with the exposure unit and position the exposure unit. The support surface of the frame member is in contact with at least one of the support member or the positioning member, and wherein the exposure unit is configured to be attached to the frame member via the support member and the positioning member.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a process cartridge including a photoconductive drum and a developing roller; a toner cartridge containing toner; and a drawer movable between an inner position and an outer position. The process cartridge includes a lock member movable between a lock position at which the lock member locks the process cartridge to the drawer, and a release position at which a lock between the process cartridge and the drawer is released. The lock member is located at the lock position in a state in which the process cartridge is mounted to the drawer, and the toner cartridge is mounted to the process cartridge. The lock member is located at the release position in a state in which the process cartridge is mounted to the drawer, and the toner cartridge is removed from the process cartridge.

Abstract: A developing cartridge includes: a cartridge body for accommodating developers; a driving part at a first end in a first direction; a developing roller rotatable about a rotation axis extending along the first direction and positioned at a third end in a second direction; a storage medium for storing information; an electrical contact surface electrically connected to the storage medium and fixed relative to the cartridge body, and a lifting element configured to lift up the cartridge body in the third direction. The electrical contact surface is positioned at the first end in the first direction and is farther away from the developing roller relative to the driving part. The lifting element is farther away from the developing roller in the second direction away from the driving part.