US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on June 30 for "Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing malfunction of sensor and conveyance control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,767, issued on June 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus capable of suppressing malfunction of sensor and conveyance control method" was invented by Keiju Ishida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a transfer portion, a fixing portion, a sensor, a duct, and an airflow generation portion. The transfer portion transfers a toner image to a sheet. The fixing portion fixes the toner image transferred to the sheet by the transfer portion on the sheet. The sensor senses the sheet on a downstream side of the transfer portion in a conveyance d...