US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 22 for "Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,040, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Akinobu Hirayama (Shizuoka, Japan), Teruhiko Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Tachio Kawai (Tokyo), Daisuke Abe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Toshiki Fujino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toner cartridge includes a toner accommodating chamber, a toner discharge chamber, a communication passage, a discharge opening provided in the toner discharge chamber, a coupling for receiving a driving force from outside, a feeding member for conveying the toner in an axial direction of the coupling, and a first sheet and...