ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,804, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOKUDEN Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Induction heated roll apparatus" was invented by Takatsugu Kitano (Otsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is intended to adjust an amount of thermal expansion at a desired position in an axial direction of a roller body of an induction heated roll apparatus, regardless of an amount of load heat extracted from the roller body by a heating target object. The induction heated roll apparatus includes the roller body that is cylindrical and has a hollow space, a plurality of induction coils provided in an inside along the axial direction of...