US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 11 for "Fixing unit with a film regulating surface disposed upstream of the center of a nip portion and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,245, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing unit with a film regulating surface disposed upstream of the center of a nip portion and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Wakatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsuguhiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Doda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshiyuki Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing unit includes a film, a nip forming member, a heating unit, a rotary member arranged to sandwich the film together with the nip forming member, and an end portion regulating member configured to be in sliding contact with the film and to regulate an end portion...