ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,291, issued on April 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuri Shimamoto (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance between a fan and an area of a belt opposed to the fan at a downstream side in an air discharge direction of the fan is a first distance. A distance between the fan and an area of the belt opposed to the fan at an upstream side in an air intake direction of the fan is a second distance. The first distance is equal to or greater than the second distance."
The patent was filed on Nov. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/504,358.
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