US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,855, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus" was invented by Shoichiro Ikegami (Kanagawa, Japan), Takaaki Akamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Imaizumi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming apparatus includes a fixing apparatus having first and second rotating members, a heater, and a soaking member. The soaking member includes a first region first region having a fixed width in the widthwise direction, a second region closer to an end-portion side than the first region, and ranging from an end portion of the first region to a position where an end portion of a maximum ...