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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,503, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuta Suzuki (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a conveyance unit, a transfer unit, a fixing unit, a detection unit configured to detect a deflection amount of the sheet, and a control unit configured to control a conveyance speed of the sheet by the fixing unit based on a detection result of the detection unit. The control unit is configured to perform a mode that performs, during a time when a single sheet is being nipped by the conveyance unit, the transfer unit, and the fixing unit, a ...