US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on June 10 for "Developer container and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,673, issued on June 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Developer container and image forming apparatus" was invented by Toshio Takiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Shimomoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developer container includes: a first containing portion that contains new developer; a second containing portion that contains developer; a transport unit that transports the developer in the first containing portion toward an outside of the first containing portion; and a receiving unit that receives a driving force from a driving unit of a body of an image forming apparatus and t...