Patent 7312420 was granted and assigned to Lexmark International, Inc. on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A heating assembly for a printing device includes a heating device configured to be energized or deenergized. A switching device includes a bimetallic element efficiently thermally coupled to the heating device and configured to deenergize the heating device in a defined period of time in the event of an over temperature condition.