US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Component bonding method and component assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,790, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Component bonding method and component assembly" was invented by Ryo Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Yukuo Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Shuichi Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoaki Kamagata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daiki Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple components are bonded to each other by assembling a first component, a second component, and an elastic component so that a first space and a second space separate from the first space are formed adjacent to the first component and the second component and the elastic component is accommodated in the first space in ...