ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,807, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus with enhanced cooling performance" was invented by Taisuke Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoji Asanuma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tatsuya Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a body, image forming units, stations, air supply ports, and an air supply duct. The apparatus includes a full-specification inner cover and a specified-specification inner cover installed in the body when image formation is performed in a full specification state and a specified specification state, respectively. The full-speci...