ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,253, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shunsuke Matsushita (Kanagawa, Japan), Taichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobuo Oshima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member about a rotational axis extending in the axial direction, a charging member, an accommodating portion accommodating toner charged to a predetermined polarity; a developing member, a transfer portion, a static eliminating portion, and a collecting member. In the axial direction, when A is a eliminating width with which the eliminating portion di...