Non-rotating retracted cleaning brush
CA 2174262 C · Owner: Gerbasi, Dennis G. · Inventors: Thayer, Bruce E.; Gerbasi, Dennis G.; Lange, Clark V.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
An apparatus and method for stopping rotation and retracting a cleaning brush away from contact regions to avoid the occurrence of flat spots or voids in the cleaning brush and prevent toner emissions from the brush as it is retracted.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 16, 1996 and granted June 19, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 16, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 16, 2018.
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