US Patent Issued to Canon on July 1 for "Heating device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,043, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Heating device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takanori Mitani (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Isamu Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device includes a first rotating body, a heater, a temperature detection element, and a heater holder. The heater includes a heating element and a substrate on which the heating element is located. The temperature detection element is located on a second surface of the substrate opposite to a first surface of the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate. The heater holder in...