US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Image forming apparatus including a retractable guide member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,230, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus including a retractable guide member" was invented by Shizuma Nishimura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Tomooku Koyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, and a supporting device, wherein, when the fixing unit is at a first position, a moving member is positioned closer to a first rotation member than a virtual line connecting an end portion of a fixing nip portion where a recording medium enters and an end portion of the guide member on an upstream side in a recording medium...