US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 15 for "Development device, image forming apparatus, and development method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,926, issued on April 15, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Development device, image forming apparatus, and development method" was invented by Takeshi Arakawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A development device includes an accommodation section that accommodates a developer and a developer bearing member that carries the developer in the accommodation section. The developer bearing member includes a magnetic member and a sleeve provided around the magnetic member rotatably around the magnetic member. The sleeve includes a metal substrate with a surface having projections and recesses and a...