US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Toner container with removable film" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,845, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner container with removable film" was invented by Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Mitsuhiro Sato (Tokyo) and Goshi Ozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner container that is removable from an image forming apparatus includes a storage portion including a container portion that stores toner and a front end portion including a discharge port that discharges the toner from the toner container and a nozzle including a passage that enables the toner to pass through the passage toward the discharge port. At least part of the front end portion is covere...