US Patent Issued to Canon on July 8 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,422, issued on July 8, 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 an image forming unit to form an image on a sheet, a conveyance roller, a motor, a gear train, a detection unit to detect motor driving current, a phase determination unit to determine a motor rotor rotation phase, and a control unit having first and second control modes. The control unit rotates the rotor to rotate the conveyance roller in a predetermined direction, and rotates the conveyance roller in a direction opposite to the predetermine...