US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 28 for "Charge eliminating apparatus and image forming system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,529, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Charge eliminating apparatus and image forming system" was invented by Hiroyuki Eda (Ibaraki, Japan), Ryou Sakaguchi (Chiba, Japan), Riki Fukuhara (Chiba, Japan), Shin Iwasaki (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 charge eliminating member, a moving unit, and a controller. The controller configured to execute a first processing in which charge of a sheet is eliminated by applying voltage to the charge eliminating member in a state where the charge eliminating member is positioned at a contact ...