US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 7 for "Heating device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,485, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Heating device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" 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 heating device includes a planar heater, a heating rotator, a pressure rotator, and one or more charge eliminators. The planar heater includes a base and a resistive heat generator. The heating rotator contacts the heater and includes a conductive layer. The pressure rotator presses the heating rotator and has an outer surface including a conductive material. The one or more charge eliminators co...