US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Fixing apparatus having uniform surface potential difference between fixing film and pressure roller and image forming apparatus thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,414, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing apparatus having uniform surface potential difference between fixing film and pressure roller and image forming apparatus thereof" was invented by Takao Kume (Kanagawa, Japan), Akimichi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoshi Nishida (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Okayasu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takanori Mitani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes first and second rotating members, a heater having a heating element and a substrate, and first and second contact members. A direction of a longer side on a surface of the substrate where the heati...