US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Heater, heating device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,805, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Heater, heating device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Kinukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaka Sato (Tokyo), Sho Taguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoo Akizuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Oshima (Kanagawa, Japan), Osamu Sasaoka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masafumi Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater includes: a substrate; an insulating layer that is provided on the substrate; and a heat generating element that is provided on the insulating layer, and in a case where a region including a center of the substrate is defined as a first region, a regi...