US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Sept. 30 for "Control board, electronic equipment, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,808, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Control board, electronic equipment, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a control board for efficiently generating electric energy in a power generating device from heat generated from an electronic device. A control board includes a board including a first heat dissipating pad; an electronic device including a second heat dissipating pad to dissipate heat; a power generating device including a Peltier device which converts heat energy generated from the electronic device into electr...