US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 2 for "Image forming apparatus including coupling member selectively coupled to photosensitive drum" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,568, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus including coupling member selectively coupled to photosensitive drum" was invented by Yasushi Okabe (Nagoya, Japan) and Junichi Hashimoto (Toyohashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image forming apparatus, a process frame is movable into and out of a main casing in a first direction. The process frame includes a first wall and a second wall spaced apart from the first wall in a second direction. A first cartridge is detachably mountable to the process frame in a third direction crossing the second direction. A first electr...