US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 29 for "Roller driving apparatus used in image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,363, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Roller driving apparatus used in image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunsuke Uratani (Shizuoka, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ogawa (Tokyo) and Soichi Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roller driving apparatus includes a roller having a shaft, and a gear fixed to a first end portion of the shaft, wherein the gear includes a hole into which the first end portion is inserted and formed of an inner peripheral surface including an inner circumferential surface centering on a first center, a projection, in a case where two areas d...