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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,671, issued on June 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image carrier unit and image forming apparatus" was invented by Haruno Nagumo (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yosuke Ninomiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image carrier unit includes an image carrier configured to carry an image on a surface of the image carrier, a conduction member configured to establish electrical conduction of the image carrier by a contact point with the image carrier, and a shape portion configured to allow viewing of the contact point."

The patent was filed on Feb. 5, 2024, under ...