ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,130, issued on April 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Nakazono (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaka Sato (Tokyo), Naofumi Murata (Tokyo) and Hikaru Osada (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus is used that has: a first rotation member; an elongated heater disposed in an internal space of the first rotation member, and having a heat generating member and a substrate on which the heat generating member is provided; a temperature sensing unit that detects a temperature of the heater; a heater holder that holds the heater; a second rotation membe...