G03G 15/657
Feeding path after the transfer point and up to the fixing point
Official title: {Feeding path after the transfer point and up to the fixing point, e.g. guides and feeding means for handling copy material carrying an unfused toner image}
G03G15/657 (Feeding path after the transfer point and up to the fixing point) appears on 558 US grants and 611 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Image forming apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,499 B2Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,503 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,507 B2Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Image forming apparatus that detects presence of sheet on transport route, and posture of branch guide, with single sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,508 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Image forming apparatus including chute located upstream of fuser1 Sep 2026US 12,724,375 B2Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310119 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299494 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299495 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus, control method for the same, and medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299496 A1Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Image forming apparatus24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288049 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Suction-type sheet carrying mechanism applied to an image forming apparatus41US 5,031,002 AFujitsu Limited · 1991
- Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same39US 6,937,827 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2005
- Image forming apparatus35US 5,063,415 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1991
- Image forming apparatus preventing change of size of image32US 5,819,149 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1998
- Sheet buckle sensing27US 5,166,735 AXerox Corporation · 1992