US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on Jan. 27 for "Image forming apparatus and heating control method capable of suppressing image distortion" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,892, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus and heating control method capable of suppressing image distortion" was invented by Nobuhiro Maezawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image forming apparatus includes an ejection portion, a guide portion, a plurality of heating elements, a determination processing portion, and a drive control portion. The ejection portion ejects ink toward a first surface of a strip-shaped medium. The guide portion is provided at a position sandwiching the medium between the guide portion and the ejection portion, and forms...