US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Fixing apparatus and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,757, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing apparatus and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Muramatsu (Tokyo), Tomoyo Miyakai (Tokyo) and Ryunosuke Kawahara (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus comprising: a fixing film having an endless shape, a pressurizing member disposed to face the fixing film and configured to form a nip with the fixing film, and a heating member disposed inside of the fixing film, having a facing surface facing an inner circumferential surface of the fixing film, and configured to bias the fixing film against the pressurizin...