US Patent Issued to CANON on March 31 for "Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,198, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having toner replenishment" was invented by Tomio Noguchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Masaaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kenji Matsuzaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Fujinaka (Tokyo), Takao Sameshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Akitoshi Toyota (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Inaba (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kenichi Iida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first opening/closing member to move between a first closed position, where it closes an attachment portion to receive toner supplied from a toner container, and a first open position, and an...