US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 18 for "Image forming apparatus with fixing via rotary heater and bonding via heater configured to move in thickness direction" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,715, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus with fixing via rotary heater and bonding via heater configured to move in thickness direction" was invented by Kenji Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion configured to perform a fixing process in which the fixing portion fixes the image and the powder adhesive to the sheet, and a bonding portion configured to perform a bonding process in which the bonding portion bonds the plurality of sheets to each other with the powder adhesive by using the heating me...