ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,173, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus having a filter to reduce dust" was invented by Shingo Ito (Tokyo), Ai Suzuki (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Osamu Sasaoka (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, a housing configured to accommodate the image forming portion and the fixing portion and having an opening portion through which an outside of the housing and an inside of the housing communicate with each other. A photosensitive member includes a conductive base body and a surface layer...