ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,106, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Keiju Ishida (Osaka, Japan) and Takehiro Sato (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tilted surface is provided in a heating unit and is tilted with respect to a first direction. A movable member includes a roller and is movable along the first direction. A first direction movement mechanism causes the movable member to move along the first direction in an interlocking manner with a movement of an operation member. When the movable member moves in an interlocking manner with the movement of the ope...