US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,478, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Chikara Imaizumi (Shizuoka, Japan), Satoshi Murasaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Kiyoshi Furuta (Shizuoka, Japan), Shinya Noda (Shizuoka, Japan), Kunihiro Niwa (Shizuoka, Japan), Yoji Misao (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomooku Koyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomoki Katafuchi (Shizuoka, Japan), Tomonari Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichi Sekimizu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device a including a belt. When image formation on a recording material is per...