US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Image forming apparatus having carrier collection device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,236, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having carrier collection device" was invented by Yuta Okuyama (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a carrier collection device including a rotatable collection roller disposed facing an image carrying member, a magnet non-rotatably disposed inside the sleeve, and a conductor member disposed facing the collection roller. The collection device being configured to collect carrier on the image carrying member. The apparatus includes a first bias application unit configured to apply a first bias obtained by sup...