US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Image forming apparatus with simplified developer replenishment structure and that is user-friendly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,129, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with simplified developer replenishment structure and that is user-friendly" was invented by Kazuhiro Funatani (Kanagawa, Japan), Masatake Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Yamawaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenichi Iida (Tokyo), Shinsuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kensuke Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takanori Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ai Suzuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism that enables developer replenishment by a simpler structure and a mechanism that enables more user-friendly developer replenishment are provided. An attachment po...