US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 18 for "Apparatus including an extior cover to open and close a powder collection container" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,820, issued on March 18, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus including an extior cover to open and close a powder collection container" was invented by Minoru Toyoda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kentaro Nodera (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder collection container that is attachable to and detachable from a mount part of an apparatus and stores powder includes a plurality of walls that form a storage space to store the powder. The plurality of walls include a first wall that faces the mount part of the apparatus and a second wall that does not to face the mount part of the apparatus. A thickness of...