US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Temperature detection apparatus having a base member that moves in a thickness direction of a heater, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,441, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Temperature detection apparatus having a base member that moves in a thickness direction of a heater, fixing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenichi Tagami (Tokyo), Noriyuki Ito (Chiba, Japan), Masafumi Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Nakashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes a first rotary member, a nip forming member, a second rotary member, a heating element, a temperature detection element, a holder configured to hold the temperature detection element, and an urging member configured to urge the hol...