US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Image forming apparatus including belt unit and door unit supporting the belt unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,853, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including belt unit and door unit supporting the belt unit" was invented by Masaki Shimomura (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroyuki Kadowaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomonori Shida (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yoji Misao (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a main body having an opening and housing a photosensitive drum, a door unit connected to the main body and movable between a closed position where it closes the opening and an open position where it opens the opening, and a belt unit including a belt configured to contact wit...