US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,656, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yoshiaki Hara (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus can include an image forming unit, a conveyance unit, a housing, a first electrical member, a second electrical member, and a wire bundle, wherein a rotation space is left below a pre-image forming conveyance unit in the housing to enable the conveyance unit to be moved. The wire bundle can be routed from the rear to the front of the housing in a space below the conveyance unit in a separated position. A size of the space left in the housing can be ...