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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hirochika Sato, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 21/203 (2013.01); G03G 15/502 (2013.01); G03G 15/5079 (2013.01); G03G 15/5087 (2013.01); G03G 2215/00109 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a condensation removal unit configured to perform condensation removal absorbing condensation with toner in the image forming apparatus, and a setting unit configured to set an amount of toner to be used for the condensation removal, wherein the condensation removal unit performs the condensation removal by using the mount of toner set by the setting unit.