ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,761, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Fixing member" was invented by Noriaki Kobayashi (Ibaraki, Japan), Naoki Akiyama (Ibaraki, Japan), Hiroto Sugimoto (Ibaraki, Japan), Hiroki Muramatsu (Tokyo), Akeshi Asaka (Chiba, Japan) and Yasuhiro Miyahara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing member includes a slide layer having a cylindrical shape and a thickness of 8 micrometers (micro metre) or more and 20 micro metre or less, a base layer formed on an outer side of the slide layer, and a surface layer formed on an outer side of the base layer. The slide layer has Benard convection cell structure having an...