US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,430, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Keita Kondo (Tokyo), Kenichi Tanaka (Ibaraki, Japan) and Atsushi Yoshida (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit including a rotary member pair configured to form a first nip portion, a cooling unit configured to form a second nip portion, a drive unit, an obtaining unit configured to obtain information regarding torque of the drive unit, and a control unit. In a state where the recording material is nipped by the first nip portion and the second nip portio...