US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Sept. 2 for "Developing device and image forming apparatus having operation mode for cleaning" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,551, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Developing device and image forming apparatus having operation mode for cleaning" was invented by Arichika Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yutaka Kiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A developing device includes a developer holder that supplies developer to an image carrier on which an electrostatic latent image is formed. The developing device further includes a removing member that removes the developer that has not been supplied to the image carrier and remains on the developer holder and a transport unit that includes a helical rot...