ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,912, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus with fiber brush" was invented by Shuichi Tetsuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiko Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing unit to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer unit to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of fibers contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotati...