US Patent Issued to RICOH on March 24 for "Heating device, fixing device, drier, laminate processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,214, issued on March 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Heating device, fixing device, drier, laminate processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus" was invented by Yuusuke Furuichi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hitoshi Fujiwara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating device including a heater; a flange including a beam, wherein the flange rotatably supports an endless belt; a temperature detector to detect a temperature, the temperature detector disposed inside the endless belt; a lead wire connected to the temperature detector, the lead wire extending from an inside of the endless belt to an outside of...