US Patent Issued to Canon on June 17 for "Image heating device having heating element groups and safety elements for shutting off power to the heating element groups" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,588, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image heating device having heating element groups and safety elements for shutting off power to the heating element groups" was invented by Takashi Honke (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image heating device includes a heater having a plurality of heating elements which includes a first heating element group and a second heating element group, a control portion which supplies power to the first heating element group through a first common circuit and supplies power to the second heating element group through a second common circuit. The first common circu...