US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 30 for "Image forming apparatus with pump portion for generating air to move toner to toner supplying device to developing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,845, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with pump portion for generating air to move toner to toner supplying device to developing device" was invented by Hiroomi Matsuzaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Hiroki Ogino (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tetsuo Uesugi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a pump portion that is variable in volume, a feeding path portion including a connection opening communicating with the pump portion at one end and including a discharge opening at the other end, and a toner accommodating portion connected to a communicating opening that...