US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 30 for "Cooling device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,775, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Cooling device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Tomohisa Soda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A floating body is stored in a tank with a coolant and has a lower density than the coolant. A swing member is swingably supported and includes a contact portion which is displaced by being brought into contact with the tank and a to-be-detected portion which moves in an interlocking manner with the displacement of the contact portion. A sensor detects the floating body or the to-be-detected portion present at a detection positio...