ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,763, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus that controls sheet interval" was invented by Hiromitsu Takano (Kanagawa, Japan), Takanori Mitani (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Nagashima (Tokyo) and Takeshi Shimba (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance member to convey a sheet, an image forming unit, a fixing device, a component, and a controller. The image forming unit forms a toner image on the conveyed sheet conveyed. The fixing device fixes an unfixed toner image formed on the sheet, onto the sheet. Heat of the fixing device propagates to th...