US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on March 31 for "Image forming apparatus having optical scanning unit with wire harness and connector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,186, issued on March 31, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus having optical scanning unit with wire harness and connector" was invented by Tomohide Hozono (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover closes a first opening of a main box portion. A second opening is formed in a unit housing of an optical scanning unit to externally expose a connector mounted on an electronic board. The unit housing has a protruding inner frame portion and a wiring portion. The protruding inner frame portion protrudes from an outer surface of the unit housing and surrounds the second opening...