US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 1 for "Image forming apparatus with rotary body having background portion and cleaning portion" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,348, issued on April 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus with rotary body having background portion and cleaning portion" was invented by Takehiro Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image forming apparatus transfers an image onto a surface of a sheet at a transfer position on a conveying path. A pair of conveying rollers convey the sheet to the transfer position. The image sensor reads the sheet upstream of the transfer position. The rotary body is disposed to face the image sensor with the conveying path interposed therebetween. The rotary body includes a bac...