US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 1 for "Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,381, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same" was invented by Hideaki Kurimoto (Sakai City, Japan) and Satoshi Kimura (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing device includes: a developing device body including a vent opening that releases internal pressure, and a filter member including a filter that closes the vent opening, the filter member detachably attached to the developing device body; wherein the filter member is subjected to an attaching operation and a detaching operation, relative to the developing device bod...