US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Exchanging tool and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,675, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Exchanging tool and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryo Abe (Chiba, Japan), Yuta Okada (Ibaraki, Japan), Shinichiro Hosoi (Tokyo), Ryota Fukumoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Nobuhisa Kojima (Chiba, Japan) and Hitoshi Iwai (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an exchanging tool for an image forming apparatus including: an exposure head; a flexible flat cable to electrically connect the exposure head with a control circuit board; and a guide portion being configured to hold the flexible flat cable along leftward and rightward directions. The exchanging t...