US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 22 for "Image-forming apparatus generating electrical discharge upstream of transfer portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,041, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image-forming apparatus generating electrical discharge upstream of transfer portion" was invented by Tsuguhiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shuichi Tetsuno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koji An (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image-forming apparatus includes a rotatable developer-bearing member to bear a developer including a toner particle and a transfer promoting particle attached to the toner particle. When F denotes pressing force for pressing the developer-bearing member against an image-bearing member, and N denotes a number of the transfer promoting partic...