US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Feb. 11 for "Fixing device including pressure roller whose elastic layer has little impact on nip width due to thermal expansion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,666, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Fixing device including pressure roller whose elastic layer has little impact on nip width due to thermal expansion" was invented by Takuya Nishimura (Nukata, Japan), Makoto Souda (Nagoya, Japan), Kazuna Taguchi (Nagoya, Japan), Yasutada Kato (Nagoya, Japan) and Shinichi Hatakeyama (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device incorporated in a main body of an image forming apparatus includes a heater, a rotatable body, and a pressure roller. The rotatable body is configured to be heated by the heater. The pressure roller is configured to for...