US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 1 for "Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,364, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus and method of cleaning image forming apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Tanaka (Fussa, Japan), Atsushi Nakamura (Saitama, Japan), Shinichi Tsukamura (Uenohara, Japan), Nobuyasu Tamura (Hachioji, Japan) and Ryo Fujimitsu (Tachikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a cleaning roller; a web feeder; and a hardware processor. The cleaning roller collects an adhering substance adhering to a fixer for fixing a toner image onto a recording medium. The web feeder feeds, to the cleaning roller, a ...