US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 29 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,360, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shuma Hiasa (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Tateishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jumpei Nitta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit, a toner cartridge configured to store toner, a drive source, a moving member to be moved in a movement direction by a driving force of the drive source, and a drive transmission mechanism to transmit the driving force from the drive source to the moving member. The moving member includes a first force receiving portion to receive the driving force fr...