US Patent Issued to Canon on April 14 for "Photosensitive member unit, cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,001, issued on April 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photosensitive member unit, cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryuta Murakami (Shizuoka, Japan), Makoto Hayashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Takatoshi Hamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Yusuke Niikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Akinobu Hirayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshiki Fujino (Kanagawa, Japan), Tachio Kawai (Tokyo) and Teruhiko Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photosensitive member unit is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus. The photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member rotatable...