US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,546, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomoo Akizuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunsuke Mizukoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charging member, a charging voltage applying portion, an exposure unit, a developing member, a developing voltage applying portion, a cleaning member, and a controller. During a non-image forming operation from a start of rotation of the image bearing member to a start of an image forming operation or from an end of the image forming operation to a ...