US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,672, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus" was invented by Shinya Naoi (Tokyo), Sho Okuzawa (Tokyo) and Sho Soda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a main part that forms an image on a continuous medium in a state in which a tension is applied to the continuous medium, the continuous medium being fed from a first roll and conveyed to be taken up on a second roll; and a tension maintaining part that maintains the tension of the continuous medium at the main part during a manipulation for replacing ...