US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Pressurization device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,766, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Pressurization device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Kenichirou Isobe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takafumi Suzuki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a cam mechanism including a pressurization member, a pressurization target member and a pressurization force generation member, a cam, a first member that moves the pressurization member by rotation of the cam and applies a pressurization force generated by the pressurization force generation member to the pressurization member, a second member that changes the pressurization force of the...