US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Dec. 23 for "Process cartridge with driving side hinge with hinge spacing" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,712, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Process cartridge with driving side hinge with hinge spacing" was invented by JinHong Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), YunKyu Shim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and SungJin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example process cartridge includes a developing unit, a photosensitive unit, and a hinge to connect the developing unit to the photosensitive unit to be pivotable between a direction in which a developing roller approaches a photosensitive drum and a direction in which the developing roller separates from the phot...