US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Foreign substance collection apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,862, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Foreign substance collection apparatus, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Noriyuki Komatsu (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomonori Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Teruhiko Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Makoto Hayashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Shunsuke Uratani (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuuki Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Satoru Motohashi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foreign substance collection apparatus includes: a frame body; a photosensitive drum; a cleaning roller which collects foreign substances from a surface of the photosensitive drum; a collecting roller ...