US Patent Issued to KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS on Sept. 1 for "Magnet roller, developing roller, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,363, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC. (Osaka, Japan).

"Magnet roller, developing roller, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yukimasa Watanabe (Osaka, Japan), Kazuaki Ezure (Osaka, Japan) and Haruhiro Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet roller includes a shaft, a plurality of magnets, and an adhesive. The plurality of magnets is arranged in a circumferential direction of a shaft center of the shaft on an outer surface of the shaft. The adhesive bonds the shaft and the plurality of magnets to each other. At least one of the magnets has a recess portion recessed with res...