US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Image forming apparatus with cooling configuration" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,409, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with cooling configuration" was invented by Takehiro Ishidate (Tokyo), Hiroki Takano (Saitama, Japan) and Ryoichi Kawasumi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus having front and rear surfaces, a photoreceptor having a rotation axis extending in a first direction, an exposure unit, and a cooling unit. The exposure unit includes a substrate having a longitudinal axis extending in the first direction, a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of light emitting elements that emit light toward the photoreceptor ...