US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on June 10 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,687, issued on June 10, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Kimio Takeuchi (Nagoya, Japan) and Shinichi Hatakeyama (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum and a fuser. The fuser includes an upper frame. The upper frame includes an upper first rib downstream of a heating rotating member in a sheet conveying direction, an upper second rib adjacent to the upper first rib in a width direction perpendicular to the sheet conveying direction, and first and second conveying rollers. The upper first rib includes a first gu...