US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 22 for "Developing cartridge including protrusion positioned at outer surface of casing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,817, issued on July 22, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Developing cartridge including protrusion positioned at outer surface of casing" was invented by Yasuo Fukamachi (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuna Taguchi (Nagoya, Japan) and Takuya Kanda (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge may include: a casing; a developing roller extending in a first direction; a developing-roller gear; a coupling including a coupling gear; a first idle gear; a second idle gear; an agitator; a first agitator gear; and a protrusion. The developing-roller gear, the coupling, the first idle gear, the second idle gear, ...