ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,133, issued on April 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takao Kume (Kanagawa, Japan), Akimichi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Okayasu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takanori Mitani (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes first and second rotating members, a heater having a heating element and a substrate, and first and second contact members. A direction of a longer side on a surface of the substrate where the heating element is disposed is a longitudinal direction. A direction intersecting the longitudina...