US Patent Issued to Toshiba Lighting & Technology on July 1 for "Heater and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,045, issued on July 1, was assigned to Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp. (Yokosuka, Japan).

"Heater and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kousuke Ueno (Ehime-ken, Japan), Masahiko Tamai (Ehime-ken, Japan), Shinjiro Aono (Ehime-ken, Japan), Akio Tsubouchi (Ehime-ken, Japan), Satoko Kato (Ehime-ken, Japan), Masahiro Doi (Ehime-ken, Japan), Tsuyoshi Ohashi (Ehime-ken, Japan) and Makoto Sakai (Ehime-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater according to embodiments includes: a base portion which contains metal, extends in a first direction, and has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; an insulat...