US Patent Issued to Brother Kogyo on June 30 for "Image forming device including switch switching according to whether fixing device is mounted or removed" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,768, issued on June 30, was assigned to Brother Kogyo K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming device including switch switching according to whether fixing device is mounted or removed" was invented by Nobuyuki Tanaka (Konan, Japan), Shuji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto (Nagoya, Japan) and Ryota Asaoka (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming device, a device body has an opening. A process member forms a developer image on a sheet. The fixing device fixes the developer image on the sheet. A fixing device is removable from the device body through the opening. A process-power supply member supplies ...