US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 29 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,899, issued on July 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yasumasa Fujii (Anjo, Japan), Takashi Arakawa (Nagoya, Japan) and Shougo Sato (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drum cartridge is configured to be detachably mounted on an apparatus main body in a state where a toner cartridge is mounted on the drum cartridge. A first shutter and a second shutter are configured such that: when the drum cartridge is mounted onto the apparatus main body in a state where the toner cartridge is mounted on the drum cartridge, the first shutter moves from a first closed position...