ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,881, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image heating device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Toru Imaizumi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takaaki Akamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image heating device comprising: a first rotating member, a heater, a heater holder, and a second rotating member, wherein the heater holder has a flat surface portion provided downstream of the heater in a conveying direction of a recording material, the flat surface portion being in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the first rotating member, wherein the flat surface portion has a first region ...