US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Jan. 13 for "Image forming apparatus for preventing transfer defects due to electrical discharge and suppressing degradation of secondary transferability" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,945, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus for preventing transfer defects due to electrical discharge and suppressing degradation of secondary transferability" was invented by Einosuke Kikuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carrying members, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, an intermediate transfer belt, and a plurality of transfer rollers. On the image carrying member disposed most downstream in the traveling direction of the intermediate transfer belt, a black tonne...