US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 9 for "Fixing rotating member and fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,256, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing rotating member and fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Matsutaka Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Tsuruya (Shizuoka, Japan) and Akira Okano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing rotating member comprising: a first resin layer having an endless shape; at least one heating layer on the first resin layer; a second resin layer on the heating layer; an elastic layer on the second resin layer; and, a surface layer on the elastic layer, wherein the first resin layer and the second resin layer are different fro...