US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on July 28 for "Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,610, issued on July 28, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus including the same" was invented by Shingo Yoshida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical scanning device includes a housing, a transmissive member, a linear member, a drive portion, a guide rail, a cleaning holder, a cleaning member, a detection portion, and a control portion. The detection portion includes a light emitter that emits light in a juxtaposition direction of the transmissive member and a light receiver that receives the light emitted from the light emitter. The cle...