US Patent Issued to Canon on March 4 for "Electrophotographic image forming apparatus, cartridge and drum unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,222, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electrophotographic image forming apparatus, cartridge and drum unit" was invented by Masanari Morioka (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeo Kawanami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yu Fukasawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge includes a casing, a photosensitive drum, and a coupling operatively connected to the photosensitive drum. The coupling includes a guiding portion, an engaging portion, and a visor portion. The visor portion projects outwardly in a direction perpendicular to the axis of the coupling. The visor portion covers a space downstream of the engaging portion in the...