US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 29 for "Image forming apparatus having a pipe to send air to an air nozzle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,365, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus having a pipe to send air to an air nozzle" was invented by Yasuharu Toratani (Chiba, Japan), Shutaro Saito (Tokyo), Keisuke Yoshida (Chiba, Japan), Yuya Yamada (Chiba, Japan), Taku Ashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Asuna Fukamachi (Chiba, Japan), Shohei Tsuzaki (Chiba, Japan), Yusuke Yamaguchi (Chiba, Japan) and Hiroshi Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a first rotatable member, a second rotatable member, an air nozzle, and a pipe. The pipe includes a portion provided in a range overlapping with th...