ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,211, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Sakamoto (Tokyo), Yusuke Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shunsuke Mizukoshi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In post-rotation control of removing an electric charge from a surface of an image bearing member in a state that the image bearing member and a developing member rotate while in contact with each other, in a case that the post-rotation control is started in a state that a recording medium is being conveyed by the image bearing member and a transfer member, i) a control portion controls a transfer voltage applying po...