US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 12 for "Image forming apparatus including exposure unit and exposure cooling unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,308, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including exposure unit and exposure cooling unit" was invented by Takehiro Ishidate (Tokyo), Hiroki Takano (Saitama, Japan) and Ryoichi Kawasumi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a photoconductor; an exposure unit that forms a latent image on the photoconductor by a substrate that is long in a rotational axis direction of the photoconductor and a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a longitudinal direction of the substrate; a connector for energizing the exposure unit, the connector bein...