ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,801, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image heating apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Honke (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an image heating apparatus, a plurality of heat-generating members that a heater has include a first heat-generating member group and a second heat-generating member group, symmetrically laid out with a conveyance reference position of a recording material. A control portion supplies electric power via first and second common circuits to the first heat-generating member group and the second heat-generating member group. A temperature-detect...