ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,118, issued on June 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing member and fixing unit" was invented by Tomoki Matsuda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takaaki Tsuruya (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing member includes a conductive layer including a plurality of conductive elements. In a direction of a generatrix of the fixing member, when an area through which a recording material with a maximum width conveyable to the fixing member passes is referred to as a first area, the first area includes a central area and an end portion area. The central area includes a central portion of the first area in the direction of the g...