US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Fixing apparatus for controlling target temperature of second conveyed recording medium and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,885, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing apparatus for controlling target temperature of second conveyed recording medium and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takahiro Uchiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Keisuke Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hirohiko Aiba (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image on a recording material includes a heating member; an opposing member which nips the recording material; and a control unit that sets a target temperature of the heating member. The control unit acquires toner amount information for each of a plurality of region...