US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 24 for "Image forming apparatus with powder conveying device having reverse rotation mode" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,213, issued on March 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with powder conveying device having reverse rotation mode" was invented by Tatsumi Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus including a conveyor disposed in a conveyance passage for conveying powder from a supply source to a supply destination in a forward direction during a supply mode. A controller is configured to execute a reverse rotation mode before the supply mode is executed. In this mode, the controller causes the conveyor to first rotate in a reverse direction and then rotate in a forward d...