US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Fixing apparatus and film unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,544, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing apparatus and film unit" was invented by Toru Imaizumi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Akamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroki Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes a film, a guide member, a stay member, a roller, and a restriction structure. The guide member is disposed in an inside space of the film, elongated in a generatrix direction of the film, and guides rotation of the film. The stay member reinforces the guide member, the film and a roller form a fixing nip portion between the film and the roller, and a recording medium...