ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,986, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing unit and image forming apparatus" was invented by Mahito Yoshioka (Shizuoka, Japan), Takanori Yamamoto (Shizuoka, Japan), Hirohiko Aiba (Shizuoka, Japan) and Keisuke Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing unit includes a rotary member, a pressure member configured to form a fixing nip, a heater disposed in an internal space of the rotary member, the heater including a substrate, and a heating element provided on the substrate and configured to heat the rotary member by being energized, a heater holder configured to hold the heater, and a h...