US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Structure and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,876, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Structure and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Ozawa (Osaka, Japan), Koichiro Tsujimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshiki Aoyama (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each of four outer side surfaces of each of a plurality of square pipes include a groove portion formed along a longitudinal direction of each of the plurality of square pipes and a pair of ridge line portions forming edge portions on both sides of the groove portion. An additional member includes a contact plane which is a plane in contact with a portion of the plu...