US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Image forming apparatus that changes a fixing condition based on temperatures of a heating member detected at different times" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,442, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that changes a fixing condition based on temperatures of a heating member detected at different times" was invented by Kohei Haematsu (Shizuoka, Japan), Takahiro Uchiyama (Shizuoka, Japan), Keisuke Mochizuki (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hirohiko Aiba (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 unit including a fixing member, a heating member, and a temperature detection portion, and a control portion configured to execute warm-up processing. If a temperature of the heating member at...