US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 14 for "Image forming apparatus having a rotary and detachable toner cartridges" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,137, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having a rotary and detachable toner cartridges" was invented by Jumpei Nitta (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Tateishi (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Sasaoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Koguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shuma Hiasa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotary including a developing roller, and a storage frame including a storage chamber to store toner to be supplied to the developing roller and an inlet opening communicating with the storage portion. In addition, a body frame has an opening and accommodat...