ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,216, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image heating device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shizuma Nishimura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takashi Honke (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flange member is adapted such that a first distance between a first position at which a part thereof on an upstream side in a recording material conveyance direction comes into contact with a film inner surface and a nip center that is an intersection of a first virtual line and a second virtual line is longer than a second distance between a second position at which a region of an outer surface of the fl...