US Patent Issued to Canon on May 12 for "Booklet making apparatus and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,882, issued on May 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Booklet making apparatus and image forming apparatus" was invented by Koji Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Nakahara (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Kawarago (Shizuoka, Japan) and Kazushi Nishikata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A booklet making apparatus includes a heat-and-pressure bonding portion including a pressurizing member, a receiving member, a moving portion configured to move the pressurizing member, and a heating portion configured to heat the pressurizing member. The booklet making apparatus is configured to nip, heat, and pressurize, between the pressurizi...