US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Business Innovation on Oct. 6 for "Belt transport device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,497, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).

"Belt transport device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Takashi Matsubara (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuma Ishihara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hina Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A belt transport device includes an endless belt, multiple stretchers that stretch the belt, a corrector that displaces one of the multiple stretchers to correct a shift of the belt toward an edge portion of the belt in an axial direction of the belt, and a lubricant applicator that applies a lubricant to ...