US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Image forming apparatus including a plurality of doors that are opened and closed" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,895, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including a plurality of doors that are opened and closed" was invented by Shigeo Doi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing to store an image forming unit that forms an image on a sheet, doors, a cover part, and holding members. Each of the doors rotates around a rotational axis to be opened and closed relative to the housing and includes a positioning shaft and a projection. When each of the doors is in an opened state, an inside of the image forming apparatus is exposed. The cover part is pro...