US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Oct. 6 for "Image carrier unit and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,492, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image carrier unit and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takekazu Shiotani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image carrier unit includes: an image carrier having a circular cross-section and extending in one direction; an exposure device that radiates exposure light to the image carrier, the exposure device extending in the one direction and being opposed to the image carrier in a radial direction of the image carrier; a projecting member that is provided at both-end portions of the exposure device in the one direction, and proj...