US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,809, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Kadowaki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoji Misao (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body; a first unit including a photosensitive drum, the first unit including a first wall surface provided at one end portion in a rotation axis direction of the photosensitive drum; and a second unit including a belt capable of coming into contact with the photosensitive drum. The first unit and the second unit are capable of being coupled to each other and moving integrally to the...