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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2023
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuhiro Shimura, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01); H05B 3/03 (2006.01); H05B 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/2039 (2013.01); G03G 15/2003 (2013.01); G03G 15/2042 (2013.01); G03G 15/2053 (2013.01); H05B 3/03 (2013.01); G03G 2215/2035 (2013.01); H05B 3/26 (2013.01); H05B 2203/007 (2013.01); H05B 2203/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A heater of the present invention includes jointed heat generating resistors having a positive temperature characteristic of resistance and provided between a first conductive element and a second conductive element on a substrate in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, and a plurality of heating blocks provided in the longitudinal direction, each of which is a set of the first conductive element, the second conductive element, and the heat generating resistor, and power supplied to at least one of the plurality of heating blocks can be controlled independent of other heating blocks.