US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Fixing device provided with heater and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,558, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device provided with heater and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kohei Wakatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsuguhiro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a heater provided with a first heat generator on a substrate and a second heat generator of which a length in a longitudinal direction is shorter than that of the first heat generator, a temperature detector of the heater, a switch for switching a power supply path from an AC power source to the first heat generator or the second heat generator. A controller for controll...