US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 26 for "Image forming apparatus having detachable toner cartridges" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,453, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having detachable toner cartridges" was invented by Jumpei Nitta (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Tateishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Sasaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Koguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuma Hiasa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable rotary including a developing roller and a storage frame including a storage portion to store toner, a body frame with an opening, a toner cartridge which is attachable to and detachable from the rotary through the opening, which is movable to an attached posi...