ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,895, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuzo Harada (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor housing that supports a photoconductor drum so as to rotate about a shaft, a developing housing that supports a developing roller, so as to rotate about a shaft, a first contact member provided on an end portion of the photoconductor housing in an axial direction, and a second contact member provided on an end portion of the developing housing in the axial direction, and configured to make contact ...