MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514076319 A) filed by Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, on Aug. 11, 2025, for 'heating device and image forming apparatus.'
Inventor(s) include Itoh, Masatoshi; Kumada, Hiromitsu; and Matayoshi, Yasumasa.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A heating device includes a heater, a switching element connected between the heater and an AC power, and a controller performing a wave number control. A power control pattern includes a first pattern of which a control period is a first number, equal to or more than 2, of half waves and which ...