US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus with tool for holding exposure head and the tool thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,721, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with tool for holding exposure head and the tool thereof" was invented by Yuta Okada (Ibaraki, Japan), Ryo Abe (Chiba, Japan), Shinichiro Hosoi (Tokyo), Hitoshi Iwai (Chiba, Japan), Nobuhisa Kojima (Chiba, Japan) and Ryota Fukumoto (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a holding tool for an image forming apparatus including: an exposure head configured to expose a photosensitive member, the exposure head being elongated along axial directions of the photosensitive member; and an exposure support member configured to support the ...