US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 16 for "Image forming apparatus with laser scanning components positioned for enhanced compactness" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,649, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with laser scanning components positioned for enhanced compactness" was invented by Jun Nagatoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive members; a scanner unit including light sources, a rotatable polygonal mirror, and reflecting members; and a fixing portion. Parts of the laser beams emitted from the light sources are reflected by the rotatable polygonal mirror toward the fixing device side, and rest parts of the laser beams are reflected by the rotatable polygonal mirror toward a sid...