US Patent Issued to Sharp on Sept. 23 for "Image forming apparatus that sets cooling time of a fixing device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,770, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus that sets cooling time of a fixing device" was invented by Takashi Nakagawa (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: an apparatus main body to which a fixing device that thermally fixes a toner image to a recording medium is detachably attached; and one or more controllers that control the apparatus main body, wherein the controllers include a setter that sets predetermined timing as timing at which the fixing device is cooled detachably from the apparatus main body."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2, ...