US Patent Issued to Canon on April 7 for "Toner container having specific dimensions and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,317, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner container having specific dimensions and image forming system" was invented by Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Goshi Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuhiro Sato (Tokyo) and Shinjiro Toba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container is provided with a bag member made of flexible film material and a discharging member connected to the bag member and configured to discharge toner from an accommodating space to an outside. When a length from an opposing surface of the discharging member to an end portion in an opposit...