US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Charge-eliminating apparatus, image forming system, and charge adjusting apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,445, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Charge-eliminating apparatus, image forming system, and charge adjusting apparatus" was invented by Yutaka Kakehi (Chiba, Japan), Yasuharu Chiyoda (Chiba, Japan), Ryosuke Tsuruga (Chiba, Japan) and Yasushi Takeuchi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A charge-eliminating apparatus includes a charge-eliminating member configured to come into contact with a sheet and eliminate static charges from the sheet, a power supply configured to apply a voltage to the charge-eliminating member, a current detection circuit configured to detect a current flowing through the ch...