US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 2 for "Cartridge including a developer storage unit for storing developer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,565, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Cartridge including a developer storage unit for storing developer" was invented by Takuya Kawakami (Mishima, Japan), Naoya Asanuma (Susono, Japan), Tetsuya Numata (Suntou-gun, Japan) and Noriyuki Komatsu (Numazu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge is mountable in and dismountable from a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, in which the main assembly includes an opening and an openable member including a discriminating portion. The cartridge includes a process unit including a rotatable photosensitive member and a developing roller configured to supply...