US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 4 for "Developer accommodating unit with stirring member and visor portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,337, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Developer accommodating unit with stirring member and visor portion" was invented by Takayuki Yada (Shizuoka, Japan), Ryuta Murakami (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuko Harada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Teruhiko Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developer accommodating unit includes a container and a stirring member. The container includes first and second frames mutually bonded to constitute an accommodating space for a developer. The stirring member stirs the developer by being rotated in a rotational direction and includes a sheet fixed to a rotational shaft. The fir...