US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 4 for "Process cartridge, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and electrophotographic photosensitive drum unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,351, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Process cartridge, electrophotographic image forming apparatus, and electrophotographic photosensitive drum unit" was invented by Takahito Ueno (Mishima, Japan), Shigeo Miyabe (Numazu, Japan), Masanari Morioka (Numazu, Japan) and Masato Hisano (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum rotatable about an axis thereof and a drum flange provided at one end portion of the photosensitive drum. The cartridge also includes a coupling member operatively connected to the drum flange, with the coupling member being configured to transmit a...