US Patent Issued to Zhuhai Pantum Electronics on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus for detecting condition of image-forming region of process cartridge without adding new terminal to image-forming apparatus main body" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,138, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Zhuhai Pantum Electronics Co. Ltd. (Zhuhai, China).

"Apparatus for detecting condition of image-forming region of process cartridge without adding new terminal to image-forming apparatus main body" was invented by Aiguo Yin (Zhuhai, China), Xiangchao Xia (Zhuhai, China), Xing Peng (Zhuhai, China), Zhe Shao (Zhuhai, China) and Haixiong Li (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a storage apparatus, a process cartridge and a connection apparatus. The process cartridge includes a cartridge body; a photosensitive drum, rotatably installed at the cartridge body,...