ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,520, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Seki (Tokyo), Ryosuke Yamazaki (Chiba, Japan) and Osamu Someya (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes heating and pressurizing rotary members, and a speed control unit. In a first mixed job to be executed in a first mode and where a first recording material is to be initially conveyed and a second recording material is to be conveyed subsequent to the first recording material, the speed control unit sets a conveyance speed of the first recording material to a second speed based on acquired...