US Patent Issued to Misuzu Industry on Sept. 29 for "Heater including a heating wire having a zig-zag shape, and a fixing device, an image formation device, and a heating device with such a heater" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,368, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Misuzu Industry Co. Ltd. (Komaki, Japan).

"Heater including a heating wire having a zig-zag shape, and a fixing device, an image formation device, and a heating device with such a heater" was invented by Yuji Umemura (Komaki, Japan), Yukio Fujita (Komaki, Japan), Mayo Kamegai (Komaki, Japan) and Kenta Kobayashi (Komaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater includes a plurality of heat-generating cells partitioned by a boundary line arranged on a base body, and includes one resistive heating wire formed in each heat-generating cell and having a zig-zag shape as a whole, the resistive ...