US Patent Issued to Sharp on July 21 for "Image forming device and image forming method providing notifications for pressure contact force adjustments" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,803, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming device and image forming method providing notifications for pressure contact force adjustments" was invented by Nobuyasu Yamada (Sakai City, Japan) and Atsushi Ogo (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device includes a toner image former forming, on a paper sheet, a toner image based on image information; a fixer including at least a pair of rollers and fixing the toner image by nipping, with a pressing member formed by the pair of rollers, the paper sheet on which the toner image is formed; an adjuster adjusting a pre...