US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 22 for "Image forming system with toner and fixing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,043, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image forming system with toner and fixing device" was invented by Tomoko Mine (Hino, Japan), Kazumi Oura (Sagamihara, Japan) and Yasuko Uchino (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an image forming system including a fixing device that fixes a toner image onto a recording medium. The fixing device includes: a belt; and a roller that includes: a first roller that stretches the belt; or a first roller that stretches the belt, and a second roller rotatably disposed in pressure contact with an outer peripheral surface of the belt, at least one of ...