US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Image forming apparatus with control of suction forces in suction fans during sheet conveyance" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,811, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with control of suction forces in suction fans during sheet conveyance" was invented by Masashi Takano (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a conveyance unit, and a control unit. The control unit selectively performs a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode. The first mode is a mode in which, when a grammage of a sheet is a first grammage, if a leading edge of the sheet has reached the fixing unit, the control unit controls the first suction unit such tha...