US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 6 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,496, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shusaku Takahata (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member, a first applying portion for applying a transfer bias to the transfer member, a recording material charging member for electrically charging a toner image transfer surface to an opposite polarity to a normal charge polarity of toner, a second applying portion for applying a recording material charging bias to the recording material charging member, a detecting portion for detecting a current fl...