US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 4 for "Image forming apparatus including an exposure head that exposes a photosensitive member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,348, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including an exposure head that exposes a photosensitive member" was invented by Nobuhisa Kojima (Chiba, Japan), Ryo Abe (Chiba, Japan), Yuta Okada (Ibaraki, Japan), Hitoshi Iwai (Chiba, Japan), Shinichiro Hosoi (Tokyo) and Ryota Fukumoto (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: a flexible flat cable configured to electrically connect a connector with a control circuit board; and an exposure support member configured to support the exposure head in a posture where the light emitting elements are ...