US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,712, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Takaya Washio (Nagoya, Japan) and Kazuya Kamikawa (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a main housing, a process unit configured to form a toner image on a sheet that is conveyed through the process unit and comprising a cartridge containing toner, a fixing device located downstream of the process unit in a direction of conveyance of the sheet, and an elastically deformable film. The fixing device includes a rotatable heating body and a rotatable pressure body. The rotatabl...