US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 29 for "Fixing rotating member, fixing device, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,369, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Fixing rotating member, fixing device, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus" was invented by Akira Okano (Kanagawa, Japan), Matsutaka Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Mizuki Kawabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kosei Hisadome (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing rotating member, containing a resin base material, a heat generating layer extending on an outer peripheral surface of the resin base material, a silicon dioxide layer on an outer peripheral surface of the heat generating layer and on the outer peripheral surface of the resin base material in a regi...