US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 30 for "Pressing mechanism, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,812, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Pressing mechanism, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Fujiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressing mechanism includes a compression spring, a supporter, and a holder. The compression spring has one end facing a pressing body to bias the pressing body against a target object in a biasing direction. The supporter supports another end of the compression spring. The holder holds the supporter and includes multiple holding portions having different heights to hold the supporter at different positions in ...