ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,953, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Heating device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kensuke Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinsuke Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ai Suzuki (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Funatani (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device has a first rotating member that is heated by a heat source, and a second rotating member that forms a nip portion with the first rotating member, such that a recording material is heated up at the nip portion. The heating device further has: a first cover disposed along an outer peripheral surface of the first rotating member, so as to surro...