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. 12,748,370, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing rotating member includes a base material containing a first resin, a heat generating layer containing silver on the base material, and a protective layer containing a second resin on a surface of the heat generating layer on a side opposite to a side facing the base material, in which the heat gener...