US Patent Issued to Canon on May 6 for "Image forming apparatus having photoconductor unit with removable developing cartridge and electrical connectors" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,712, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having photoconductor unit with removable developing cartridge and electrical connectors" was invented by Hirotaka Ishii (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing cartridge includes a storage medium. A first contact portion is provided in a photoconductor unit and configured to be electrically connected to the storage medium. A second contact portion is provided in an apparatus body. The photoconductor unit is configured to, in a case of attaching the photoconductor unit to the apparatus body, move from a first position to a second p...