US Patent Issued to KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS on Nov. 3 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,863, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Rei Yamagishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a casing, an image carrier unit, and a waste toner container. The image carrier unit is housed in the casing. The image carrier unit includes an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed. The waste toner container is housed in the casing. The waste toner container collects waste toner discharged from the image carrier unit. The image carrier unit is insertable or removable from one side in a fi...