US Patent Issued to RICOH on Aug. 12 for "Fixing device and image forming apparatus with a controller to switch between a first heating and a second heating" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,293, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device and image forming apparatus with a controller to switch between a first heating and a second heating" was invented by Kentaro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Takamasa Hase (Kanagawa, Japan), Arinobu Yoshiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Inoue (Tokyo), Mototaka Iwama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryohhei Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a first rotator and a second rotator that form a nip therebetween and fix an image on a recording medium that enters the nip. A heater heats at least one of the first rotator or the se...