US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on May 27 for "Image forming apparatus including LED array attached to top cover" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,001, issued on May 27, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus including LED array attached to top cover" was invented by Shougo Sato (Seto, Japan) and Atsushi Fukaya (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus, including a casing, a toner cartridge, and a process cartridge, is provided. The toner cartridge detachably attached to the casing stores toner therein. The process cartridge detachably attached to the casing includes a developing unit and a drum unit. The developing unit includes a developer roller and a toner conveyer tube. The toner conveyer tube has a fi...