US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Image forming apparatus with control for setting transfer bias" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,740, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with control for setting transfer bias" was invented by Izuru Tanaka (Tokyo), Manato Kobayashi (Chiba, Japan) and Yusuke Minato (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member charged to a predetermined polarity, an intermediary transfer belt, a primary transfer member forming a primary transfer portion, an electrode member in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the photosensitive member on a downstream side, first and second detecting portions to detect a current flowing through or ...