ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,844, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Toner accommodating container" was invented by Masatake Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Baba (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is used a toner accommodating container including: a bag-shaped accommodating portion having flexibility; and a toner accommodated in the accommodating portion, and including a silica particle. The toner has a value of Total Energy of 300 mJ or less in measurement of the Total Energy when a propeller type blade is caused to penetrate a surface of a powder layer of the toner manufacturing by applying a vertical load of 88 kPa...