US Patent Issued to CANON on June 30 for "Image forming apparatus including cleaning rod" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,763, issued on June 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including cleaning rod" was invented by Hayata Shibata (Chiba, Japan), Nobuhisa Kojima (Chiba, Japan) and Ryo Abe (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a rotating photosensitive member; an optical print head including a substrate on which a plurality of light emitting portions emitting light to expose the photosensitive member is provided, a lens condensing the light emitted by the plurality of light emitting portions on the photosensitive member, and a holder holding the substrate and the lens; a cleaning ...