US Patent Issued to KYOCERA Document Solutions on May 26 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,894, issued on May 26, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Nobuhiro Maezawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inkjet recording apparatus includes an ink head unit, a precoating liquid head unit, and a control part. The ink head unit ejects ink to a printing base material conveyed along a predetermined conveying direction. The precoating liquid head unit is disposed on an upstream side of the ink head unit in the conveying direction and ejects precoating liquid to the printing base material. The control part controls the precoating liquid head unit to e...