US Patent Issued to RICOH on Oct. 14 for "Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same with a biasing member assembled into the housing via a resistor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,133, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same with a biasing member assembled into the housing via a resistor" was invented by Tomoya Adachi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuusuke Furuichi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a rotator (20, 120), an opposed rotator (21, 93), a heater (22), a housing (40), a resistor (42), a separator (41), and a biasing member (44). The opposed rotator is opposite the rotator. The heater includes a resistive heat generator (31). The heater is in direct contact with the inner circumferential ...