US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 16 for "Image forming apparatus including a housing and drive unit and a driver disposed outside the housing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,890, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including a housing and drive unit and a driver disposed outside the housing" was invented by Shiro Akama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a housing, a driven unit, and a driver. The housing includes a pair of plates facing each other. The pair of plates includes a front plate and a rear plate facing the front plate and having an opening. The driven unit is supported by the pair of plates and has one end projecting outside the housing from the opening of the rear plate. The driver is disposed outside...