US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Process unit including first, second and third conveyance members for conveying developer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,449, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Process unit including first, second and third conveyance members for conveying developer" was invented by Naoki Maeda (Shizuoka, Japan), Shunsuke Uratani (Shizuoka, Japan), Makoto Hayashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Tetsuo Uesugi (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuuki Nakamura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Joji Goto (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge including a rotatable image bearing member which bears a developer, a cleaning member for removing a developer remaining on a surface of the image bearing member, the cleaning member having a contact portion in contact with the s...