ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,605, issued on June 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording medium" was invented by Shutaro Saito (Tokyo), Youichi Chikugo (Chiba, Japan), Hidekazu Tatezawa (Saitama, Japan), Rikiya Takemasa (Chiba, Japan), Takeshi Kozuma (Tokyo), Mikihiko Watanabe (Ibaraki, Japan), Taku Ashida (Chiba, Japan), Keisuke Yoshida (Chiba, Japan), Yuya Yamada (Chiba, Japan) and Kenichi Tanaka (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes a belt, a steering roller, a slide member, and a pressing rotation member that forms a nip portion by pressing the belt and is disposed...