ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,042, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Mizuki Sugino (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes an endless belt of which a surface layer is elastically deformable and a pressurizing section that is in pressure contact with the belt and that forms a nip portion, in which a maximum deformation position at which a degree of deformation of a surface of the belt is maximal is set to a position different from a maximum pressure position at which a pressurizing force of the belt is maximal."
The patent wa...