US Patent Issued to CANON on March 24 for "Process cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,223, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Process cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideki Maeshima (Mishima, Japan), Kuniaki Hirukawa (Yokohama, Japan), Shuichi Gofuku (Numazu, Japan) and Yoshihiro Mitsui (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a rotatable developing roller, a rotatable toner supplying roller provided in contact with the developing roller, and a rotatable feeding member provided in the toner chamber and configured to feed the toner from the toner chamber. A coupling is configured to receive a driving force for rotatin...