ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,767, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus using same" was invented by Noriaki Sato (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion, and a control portion. The fixing portion forms a nip portion to nip a recording material and includes heat-generating elements along a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the recording material. The fixing portion fixes the image on the recording material using heat. The image forming apparatus changes a control target temperature for each heating ...