ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,689, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yohei Ohashi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, an intermediate transfer member, a moving member, a driving motor, a stepper motor, a detector, a phase determiner, and a controller. The stepper motor drives the moving member to move between a first position at which the photosensitive member contacts the intermediate transfer member and a second position at which the photosensitive member contacts the intermediate transfer member are separated. The controller incl...