ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,905, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Okayasu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takao Kume (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes: a first and second rotation bodies; a heater disposed in the first rotation body; and a frame body supporting the first and second rotation bodies. A second length is smaller than a first length in a rotational axis direction of the second rotation body, the first length and the second length being a length of a rotation shaft of the second rotation body exposed on a on...