US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,801, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Koichi Sekimizu (Shiga, Japan), Yoji Misao (Shizuoka, Japan) and Taisuke Hyodo (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a supported unit movable relative to the apparatus main body to an inside position inside the apparatus main body and an outside position outside the apparatus main body, the supported unit including a primary transfer roller, an intermediate transfer belt, and a photosensitive member, an opening/closing member movable relative to the apparatus main ...