US Patent Issued to RICOH on Aug. 4 for "Heating apparatus, image forming apparatus, and liquid discharge apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,824, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Heating apparatus, image forming apparatus, and liquid discharge apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Morikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating apparatus includes: a heating rotator to heat a medium; a heat source including: a glass tube disposed inside the heating rotator to generate radiant heat; and a sealing on each of both ends of the glass tube in an axial direction of the heating rotator; a heater holder to hold the heat source inside the heating rotator; a support having an outer diameter smaller than an...