US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Manufacturing method of housing and apparatus having the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,041, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Manufacturing method of housing and apparatus having the same" was invented by Takuma Endo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing method of a housing that includes a first case having a first surface, a second case having a second surface opposite to the first surface, and ribs provided between the first case and the second case includes disposing the ribs on the first surface, and joining the first case and the second case together by melting the ribs. In the disposing, in a case where a load in a first direction orthogonal to an applied surface in...