US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 29 for "Image forming apparatus with cover having folded arm" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,913, issued on July 29, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus with cover having folded arm" was invented by Akira Ogawa (Osaka, Japan) and Masayuki Kakuta (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arm is disposed between a body-side rotary shaft provided in a housing and a cover-side rotary shaft provided in a cover. The arm includes a body-side arm member with one end supported by the body-side rotary shaft, a cover-side arm member with one end supported by the cover-side rotary shaft, a connecting pin configured to connect the other end of the body-side arm member and the oth...