US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Heater including a plurality of heat generation members, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,886, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Heater including a plurality of heat generation members, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiro Doda (Yokohama, Japan), Ken Nakagawa (Yokohama, Japan), Tsuguhiro Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan), Yutaka Sato (Komae, Japan) and Kohei Wakatsu (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The heater including a substrate, a first heat generation member, a second heat generation member having a length substantially a same in a longitudinal direction as a length of the first heat generation member, a third heat generation member having a length shor...