ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,296, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing device" was invented by Hikaru Osada (Kamakura, Japan) and Toru Imaizumi (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a fixing device according to the disclosure, a first surface of a restriction member is inclined so that, as the first surface goes further away from a nip portion, the first surface inclines toward a direction coming closer to an edge surface of the film, and the first surface is inclined so that, as the first surface comes downstream in the conveying direction, the first surface inclines toward a direction going further away from the edge surf...