US Patent Issued to Sharp on Oct. 27 for "Print head and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,224, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Print head and image forming apparatus" was invented by Akito Teramoto (Sakai City, Japan), Kenzo Ohkubo (Sakai City, Japan), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Sakai City, Japan) and Katsuaki Yamada (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A print head 3 includes: a light-emitting element substrate 311 having a plurality of light-emitting elements 31-31 arranged in a line; a lens array 32 that focuses light emitted from the plurality of light-emitting elements 31-31 onto an image carrier (1); and a support member 316 that supports the light-emitting element substrate 3...