US Patent Issued to Canon on May 20 for "Cartridge, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,573, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Masaaki Sato (Yokohama, Japan), Masatoshi Yamashita (Tokyo), Satoshi Nishiya (Yokohama, Japan) and Kazuhiko Kanno (Odawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge incudes a developing roller for developing a latent image on a photosensitive drum, a drive inputting portion for receiving a driving force for driving the developing roller, a movable lever, and a clutch for transmitting the driving force received by the drive inputting portion to the developing roller. In a sta...