US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on April 22 for "Image forming apparatus and cooling method capable of suppressing unnecessary cooling of fixing portion" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,275, issued on April 22, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and cooling method capable of suppressing unnecessary cooling of fixing portion" was invented by Yoshiyuki Odaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a fixing portion, a first acquisition processing portion, a first determination processing portion, and a restriction processing portion. The fixing portion is provided rotatably around a rotation shaft. The first acquisition processing portion acquires first temperature information regarding the temperature of the fixing portion at...