ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,045, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Power supply apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Junya Kobayashi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Masaki Inagaki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching control device, in a case where the overload state is detected after the switching operation is started and before the output voltage reaches a target voltage, performs a first process of maintaining a state where the switching operation is stopped and, in a case where the overload state is detected after the output voltage reaches the target voltage, performs a second process of stopping the swi...