US Patent Issued to RICOH on Dec. 23 for "Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same including a slide sheet with adhesive to bond the slide sheet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,705, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same including a slide sheet with adhesive to bond the slide sheet" was invented by Arinobu Yoshiura (Kanagawa, Japan), Takamasa Hase (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Inoue (Tokyo), Kentaro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Shogo Nakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mototaka Iwama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a fixing rotator rotatable in a rotation direction, a heat source to heat the fixing rotator, a pressure rotator contacting the fixing rotator, a nip formation pad to form a ...