ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,050, issued on July 1, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc (Osaka, Japan).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Masataka Okada (Osaka, Japan), Masaki Kadota (Osaka, Japan) and Yuji Kamiyama (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a charging device, an exposure device, a developing device, a transfer portion, a cleaning blade, and a control section. The control section detects a charging current amount of the image carrier and, when an integrated current amount obtained by integrating values of the charging current amount in a prescribed length of time is lower ...