ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,865, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryuji Tanaami (Yokohama, Japan), Keita Nakajima (Suntou-gun, Japan), Koji Miwa (Susono, Japan) and Yuji Mitsui (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including: a first moving member pressed and moved by an openable/closable member when the openable/closable member is opened, and switching a cartridge from a state where the cartridge is positioned in an image forming position to a state where the positioning is released; and a second moving member pressed and moved by t...