US Patent Issued to CANON on March 18 for "Developing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,811, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Developing device" was invented by Satoshi Sunahara (Tokyo), Satoru Motohashi (Chiba, Japan), Go Shindo (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shuhei Tokiwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing device in an apparatus main body of an image forming device includes a developing container having an accommodation chamber to accommodate a developer and a developing chamber communicating with the accommodation chamber through a communication port, with the accommodation chamber and developing chamber being integrally formed such that the developing chamber is disposed below the acc...