US Patent Issued to Canon on April 8 for "Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus for preventing overheating of a heating region when processing consecutive recording materials" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,132, issued on April 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus for preventing overheating of a heating region when processing consecutive recording materials" was invented by Masato Sako (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Whether a first heating region is actually a passing heating region or a non-passing heating region which a recording material does not pass through, is detected by the temperature detected by a temperature detecting portion, based on a difference between a detected temperature by a temperature detecting portion in a reference heating region, which is sp...