US Patent Issued to CANON on April 7 for "Image forming apparatus including motor supported by frame member and metal plates" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,324, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including motor supported by frame member and metal plates" was invented by Kei Hayashida (Tokyo), Kohei Koguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a frame member connected to first and second metal plates supporting the image bearing member, and a motor disposed on the first metal plate and between the first and second metal plates in a rotation-axis direction of the image bearing member. The frame member includes a reinforcing surface forme...