US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 21 for "Powder conveying device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,801, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Powder conveying device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasuhisa Gonda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunsuke Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuta Shimatate (Kanagawa, Japan), Koji Yoshitsugu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazunari Ishii (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder conveying device includes a first conveying component through which gas containing powder is to be conveyed; a second conveying component to which a downstream end of the first conveying component is connected and through which the gas received from the first conveying co...