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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,714, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Toshiya Kaino (Shizuoka, Japan) and Shizuma Nishimura (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes a fixing device including a fixing film, a heater disposed in the fixing film, a temperature detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the heater, and a pressure roller, a controller configured to control a rate of energizing the heater to raise the temperature detected by the temperature detection unit to a target temperature, and a storage unit configured to store tem...