US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 11 for "Charge eliminating apparatus, image forming system, and charge adjusting apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,252, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Charge eliminating apparatus, image forming system, and charge adjusting apparatus" was invented by Shin Iwasaki (Chiba, Japan), Hiroyuki Eda (Ibaraki, Japan), Ryou Sakaguchi (Chiba, Japan), Riki Fukuhara (Chiba, Japan) and Yuko Shimpo (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge eliminating apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet, a charge eliminating member configured to eliminate charge of the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit, a setting unit configured to set a charge elimination amount by the charge eliminating member, and a contr...