US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on July 29 for "Image-forming apparatus including mechanism for opening and closing shutter of attached drum cartridge in interlocking relation to opening and closing movement of cover" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,916, issued on July 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image-forming apparatus including mechanism for opening and closing shutter of attached drum cartridge in interlocking relation to opening and closing movement of cover" was invented by Aya Adachi (Kasugai, Japan), Shougo Sato (Seto, Japan) and Kazuna Taguchi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-forming apparatus includes a housing, a cover, first and second drum cartridges, first and second exposing heads, first and second guides, a waste toner tube, a shutter driving member, and an interlocking mechanism. Each of the first and second drum...