US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Sept. 30 for "Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,799, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Toner cartridge and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuki Yoshioka (Osaka, Japan) and Rei Yamagishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a toner cartridge that supplies toner to an image carrier. The toner cartridge includes a development unit that is connected to a toner container via a connection hole, and has an external opening for supplying the toner to the image carrier, an outer shutter that opens and closes the external opening, an inner shutter that opens and closes the connection h...