US Patent Issued to Canon on July 8 for "Temperature detection device, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,149, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Temperature detection device, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Tagami (Tokyo), Noriyuki Ito (Chiba, Japan), Masafumi Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes a heater including a heating member, a heater holder configured to hold the heater, a detection element configured to detect a temperature of the heater and disposed at a position that faces the heater in a third direction, a first holding member configured to hold the detection element, an urging member ...