US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 4 for "Image-forming apparatus having charging potential control during non-image forming operation" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,465, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image-forming apparatus having charging potential control during non-image forming operation" was invented by Jun Hara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taichi Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-forming apparatus, wherein, in a non-image-forming operation, a control unit executes the following control processing: i) not discharging electric charge between the charging member and the image bearing member and applying a first voltage having a first polarity with respect to a potential on the image bearing member to the charging member; ii) after performing the pr...