ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,814, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Akamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Imaizumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoichiro Ikegami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Oshima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes first and second rotation members, a heater holder having a protrusion, and a heater having a heating element and a substrate having a longitudinal direction and a thickness direction. The protrusion is disposed at a position, which is outside a nip portion and on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of a recording m...