US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 6 for "Cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,510, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Toshiki Fujino (Kanagawa, Japan), Tachio Kawai (Tokyo), Teruhiko Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Akinobu Hirayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Daisuke Abe (Shizuoka, Japan), Shinjiro Toba (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeo Kawanami (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuyuki Egami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Task] To further develop prior art technique.[SOLUTION] A cartridge includes a first unit, a second unit, a holding portion and a contact force receiving portion. The contact fo...