US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 1 for "Charging device, toner-image forming unit, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,359, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Charging device, toner-image forming unit, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuki Nagamori (Kanagawa, Japan), Go Miura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirotaka Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charging device includes: a housing having a U-shaped cross-section, disposed such that an opening thereof faces a surface of a rotating image carrier, and extending in an axial direction of the image carrier; a discharge electrode configured to charge the surface, the discharge electrode being attached to the housing, inside the housin...