US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 23 for "Structure for electrically protecting fixing apparatus provided in image forming apparatus" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,769, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Structure for electrically protecting fixing apparatus provided in image forming apparatus" was invented by Masaki Inagaki (Shizuoka, Japan), Toshiyuki Ichino (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuji Fujiwara (Boise, Idaho), Teruhiko Namiki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takao Kawazu (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal frame provides a ground potential. An image forming unit forms a toner image on a sheet. A fixing apparatus fixes the toner image on the sheet. The fixing apparatus comprises a heating element for generating heat by being supplied with power from an alternating c...