US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 13 for "Image forming apparatus which prevents damage to sheet detection flag" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,951, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus which prevents damage to sheet detection flag" was invented by Hidekazu Tatezawa (Saitama, Japan) and Rikiya Takemasa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing device detachably mounted on a main assembly of the image forming apparatus and a moving mechanism. The fixing device includes a detecting flag contacting a back surface of the recording material. The detecting flag is positioned in a first position within a conveyance path when the recording material does not exist on t...