US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 4 for "Fixing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,342, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device" was invented by Yasuharu Toratani (Chiba, Japan), Akiyoshi Shinagawa (Saitama, Japan), Hiroshi Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan), Daigo Matsuura (Tokyo), Hiroki Kawai (Chiba, Japan), Ayano Ogata (Ibaraki, Japan), Asuna Fukamachi (Chiba, Japan), Masanobu Tanaka (Chiba, Japan) and Misa Kawashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a fixing belt configured to heat a recording material, a pressure member configured to press the fixing belt, and a sliding member configured to be in sliding contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing bel...