US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Image forming apparatus and image forming method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,737, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and image forming method" was invented by Nobuhiko Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus comprises a photosensitive drum, an exposure head and a control unit. The control unit can execute a first mode and a second mode in which the drum is rotated at a second rotational speed that is a/b times of the first rotational speed of the first mode. In exposure of the second mode, the control unit controls a cycle of a light emission timing at a cycle of b/a times of a cycle of the first mode, controls the light-emitting uni...