ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,909, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOSHIBA TEC K.K. (Tokyo).
"Damage detection image forming apparatus" was invented by Sunao Takenaka (Odawara Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an image forming system includes a photoreceptor system, first and second detection system, a controller, and a determination system. The photoreceptor system having a rotational shaft in a longitudinal direction. The first detection system detects whether there is an abnormality on a surface of the cylindrical photoreceptor system at a first position. The second detection system detects whether there is the abno...