US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 30 for "Image forming apparatus, process cartridges, and connecting member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,814, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus, process cartridges, and connecting member" was invented by Masahiro Suetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroyuki Munetsugu (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinjiro Toba (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Fukui (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeo Kawanami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuyuki Egami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a plurality of process cartridges detachably mountable to the main assembly. The process cartridges each includes a photosensitive member, a first frame rotatably supportin...