US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Electrical component box and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,406, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrical component box and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yu Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoji Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshiyuki Beniya (Chiba, Japan) and Hitoshi Murao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes a first plate-shaped portion having electric conductivity, and a second plate-shaped portion having electric conductivity. The first plate-shaped portion includes an elastic member provided with a bending portion that protrudes toward the second plate-shaped portion and comes into contact with the seco...