ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,749, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing device" was invented by Hiroki Kawai (Chiba, Japan), Yasuharu Toratani (Chiba, Japan), Hiroshi Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan), Akiyoshi Shinagawa (Saitama, Japan), Ayano Ogata (Ibaraki, Japan), Daigo Matsuura (Tokyo), Misa Kawashima (Chiba, Japan), Masanobu Tanaka (Chiba, Japan) and Asuna Fukamachi (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes an endless belt, a rotatable pressing member, a pad member inside of the belt, and a sliding member held by the pad member and sliding on an inner circumferential surface of the belt in a nip. The rotatable p...