US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Fixing member for electrophotography, fixing device, electrophotographic image formation device, and addition curing liquid silicone rubber mixture" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,744, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing member for electrophotography, fixing device, electrophotographic image formation device, and addition curing liquid silicone rubber mixture" was invented by Yuji Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan), Matsutaka Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Souma (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Miyahara (Tokyo), Yutaro Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shigeo Kuroda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing member including: a substrate; and an elastic layer arranged on the substrate, wherein the elastic layer contains a silicone rubber and metal silicon powder dispersed in the silicone ru...