US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Press-bonded sheet manufacturing method, press-bonded sheet manufacturing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,561, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Press-bonded sheet manufacturing method, press-bonded sheet manufacturing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Shun Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Kawata (Shizuoka, Japan), Taku Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan), Atsushi Toda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiraku Sasaki (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press-bonded sheet in which two sheet portions are press-bonded in a peelable state is manufactured by a method including steps of: forming an adhesive layer containing powder adhesive on a sheet; heating the adhesive laye...