US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 8 for "Image forming apparatus stabilizing a printing medium surface temperature" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,649, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus stabilizing a printing medium surface temperature" was invented by Kazuyoshi Kimura (Hachioji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a conveyor that conveys a recording medium while carrying the recording medium; an image former that forms an image on the recording medium conveyed by the conveyor; and a feeder that feeds the recording medium to the conveyor. The feeder includes a first heater that heats the recording medium from a first surface side on which the image is formed, and a second heater that he...