ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,753, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Power feed path unit, image forming apparatus, and assembly method for power feed path unit" was invented by Ryoichi Kawasumi (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic assembly tool can be used to perform placement of a conductive wire material that passes through a plurality of surfaces in a power feed path unit, thus enabling reduced costs and improved assembly productivity for the power feed path unit."
The patent was filed on Feb. 22, 2024, under Application No. 18/583,920.
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