US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on July 14 for "Fixing device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,416, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Keitaro Mori (Kanagawa, Japan), Toru Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshiyuki Miyata (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Koyanagi (Kanagawa, Japan), Sou Morizaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Motoharu Nakao (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuyoshi Itoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jouta Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a belt member that cyclically moves, a pressing unit that comes into contact with the belt member and presses a recording medium moving between the belt member and the pre...