US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 28 for "Fixing rotating member, fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,524, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing rotating member, fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Matsutaka Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Tsuruya (Shizuoka, Japan), Akira Okano (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Souma (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoko Kasai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing rotating member comprising: a substrate comprising a resin; an electro-conductive layer on the substrate; and a resinous layer on a surface of the electro-conductive layer, the surface being opposed to a side of the electro-conductive layer facing the substrate, the e...