US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Fixing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,365, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing apparatus" was invented by Keisuke Yoshida (Chiba, Japan), Youichi Chikugo (Chiba, Japan), Kenichi Tanaka (Ibaraki, Japan), Hidekazu Tatezawa (Saitama, Japan), Rikiya Takemasa (Chiba, Japan), Takeshi Kozuma (Ibaraki, Japan), Mikihiko Watanabe (Ibaraki, Japan), Taku Ashida (Shizuoka, Japan), Shutaro Saito (Tokyo) and Yuya Yamada (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing apparatus includes a belt, a rotary member, a pad member, and a slide member. A distance in the conveyance direction between a first position and a second position is 3.0 mm or less. The fi...