US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Oct. 14 for "Developing cartridge including movable holder for holding electrical contact surface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,125, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Developing cartridge including movable holder for holding electrical contact surface" was invented by Shinya Kusuda (Nagoya, Japan) and Yasuo Fukamachi (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developing roller rotatable about an axis extending in a first direction; a first agitator; an agitator gear; a first protrusion; a developing memory; a first electrical contact surface; and a first holder holding the first electrical contact surface. The agitator gear includes a large diameter gear and a small diameter...