ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,574, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Air ventilation structure in image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Fujita (Chiba, Japan) and Tomoki Hasegawa (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus comprises a housing and an image forming unit. The housing includes a protective member with a protective state in which the protective member is protecting a protection target and a non-protective state in which the protective member is not protecting the protection target, an intake port, a duct for guiding air taken in from the intake port to the image forming unit and guide the ai...