US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on May 20 for "Coupling structure and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,227, issued on May 20, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Coupling structure and image forming apparatus" was invented by Masaki Murashima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coupling structure includes a container side joint and a main body side joint. The container side joint includes a container opening/closing valve, a container side communication passage, a backflow prevention valve and a protrusion. The container opening/closing valve is brought into contact with the protrusion by a pressure of the liquid filled in the container side communication passage. The main body side joint incl...