US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 1 for "Fixing device and image forming apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,366, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Fixing device and image forming apparatus" was invented by Ryohei Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing device includes a fixing rotator, a heat conductor, a pressure rotator, a heater, a pressure-receiving portion, and a heat insulator. The heat conductor contacts an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator to uniform temperature distribution in a rotation axis direction of the fixing rotator. The pressure rotator presses the fixing rotator against the heat conductor to form a nip and presses a recording medium passing through ...