US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 25 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,258, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuichi Kaku (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section; and one or more controllers that control the image forming section. At the time of start-up of the image forming section, the one or more controllers perform predetermined determination processing by which both a contact state between a photoreceptor and a transfer section and a contact state between the photoreceptor and a charging section are determined, when determining that the photoreceptor is in th...