US Patent Issued to Canon on July 28 for "Development device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,623, issued on July 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Development device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Nosho (Suntou-gun, Japan), Toru Oguma (Mishima, Japan) and Tetsuya Numata (Suntou-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are demands for stable connections of contact points between a process cartridge, including a development device, and an image forming device. A development contact point, a first contact point, and a second contact point are disposed in this order on the inside in a perpendicular direction with respect to an insertion direction in which a development devi...