ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,613, issued on June 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takeshi Sekiya (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a developing device that is mountable and dismountable and has a sealing member for sealing to be removed at a time of start using the developing device. The image forming apparatus further includes a winding shaft, a drive source, a detector, and a controller. The winding shaft rotates for removal processing for removing the sealing member. The drive source drives the winding shaft. The detector detects a value corresponding to a load tor...