US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 28 for "Image forming apparatus including a transferer that reduces variations in transfer pressure between a transfer roller and image bearer during opening and closing of a cover of the image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,531, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including a transferer that reduces variations in transfer pressure between a transfer roller and image bearer during opening and closing of a cover of the image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuuji Meguro (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaharu Furuya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shogo Kezuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a body; a cover openably attached to the body; an image bearer; a transferer attachable to the cover, the transferer including: a transfer roller facing the image bearer and displaceable ...