US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Fixing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,367, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device" was invented by Yasuharu Toratani (Chiba, Japan), Suguru Takeuchi (Chiba, Japan), Hiroshi Miyamoto (Saitama, Japan), Kengo Koyama (Chiba, Japan), Akiyoshi Shinagawa (Saitama, Japan), Kiyonori Sotome (Ibaraki, Japan), Ayano Saito (Chiba, Japan) and Masaki Suda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes an endless belt, a rotating member, a pad disposed inside the belt so as to nip the belt between itself and the rotating member and form a nip, and a sliding member disposed between the pad and the belt. The pad includes a curved porti...