ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,572, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).
"Contact pressure adjustment method and image recording apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Doyo (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology according to the present disclosure is a contact pressure adjustment method capable of suppressing adhesion of ink to a roller surface of a roller that conveys a sheet on which an image has been recorded, in an image recording apparatus. The contact pressure adjustment method includes: causing an image recording portion of an image recording apparatus to record a predetermined test image on a...