US Patent Issued to Canon on March 3 for "Image forming apparatus that sets a target temperature based on a developer amount in a developer storage portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,394, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that sets a target temperature based on a developer amount in a developer storage portion" was invented by Shingo Ito (Tokyo), Ai Suzuki (Tokyo) and Hiroko Katagiri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion including a developer storage portion, a fixing apparatus, a detection portion configured to output a detection signal in accordance with a developer amount in the developer storage portion, and a control portion configured to control a target temperature of the fixing apparatus. The control...