US Patent Issued to RICOH on Feb. 18 for "Transfer device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,868, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Transfer device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer device includes an intermediate transferor and primary transfer sections. The primary transfer sections each includes a primary transferor. The primary transfer sections include a most-upstream primary transfer section and a most-downstream primary transfer section. One of the primary transfer sections is a special-color primary transfer section switchable between the most-upstream primary transfer section and the most-downstream pri...