US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Sept. 16 for "Prevention of fire by absorbing local latent heat of fixing belt" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,883, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Prevention of fire by absorbing local latent heat of fixing belt" was invented by Sun Ae Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Bong Hee Lee (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Jung Jae Lee (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to prevent fire of a fusing belt having a heater positioned inside includes at least one temperature control member adjacent to one side of the fusing belt and, when the at least one temperature control member detects abnormal heat from the fusing belt based on a temperature of the fusing belt, the a...