US Patent Issued to Canon on June 10 for "Image forming apparatus with blown-air separation of recording material from fixing member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,678, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with blown-air separation of recording material from fixing member" was invented by Shutaro Saito (Tokyo), Keisuke Yoshida (Chiba, Japan), Yuya Yamada (Chiba, Japan), Taku Ashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Asuna Fukamachi (Chiba, Japan), Yusuke Yamaguchi (Chiba, Japan), Shohei Tsuzaki (Chiba, Japan), Hiroshi Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan) and Yasuharu Toratani (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion extending along a...