US Patent Issued to BROTHER KOGYO on Sept. 29 for "Fuser and image forming apparatus to transmit different types of signals from fuser to image forming apparatus via common terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,367, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BROTHER KOGYO K.K. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Fuser and image forming apparatus to transmit different types of signals from fuser to image forming apparatus via common terminal" was invented by Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto (Nagoya, Japan), Shuji Kawasaki (Nagoya, Japan), Toshinori Araki (Nagoya, Japan) and Nobuyuki Tanaka (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuser configured to be removably attached to an image forming apparatus includes a heating rotatable body for heating a sheet, a heater for heating the heating rotatable body, a pressure rotatable body for nipping the sheet between the pressure r...