Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device
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Application No.: US15139504Application Date: 2016-04-27
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Publication No.: US10338506B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Koji Yamamoto , Mamoru Fukaya , Toru Hayase
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2015-109264 20150529
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a fixing rotator; a pressure rotator configured to be pressed into contact with the fixing rotator to form a nip portion; a heating section configured to be provided over an outer circumference of the fixing rotator in a non-contact manner with the fixing rotator and heat the fixing rotator; and a power shutdown section configured to shut down power supply to the heating section when temperature becomes higher than a predetermined setting temperature, wherein the heating section includes an infrared heater and a reflection member which covers the infrared heater and whose portion facing the fixing rotator is an opening portion, a longitudinal length of the reflection member is longer than a length in an axis direction of a light emitting unit of the infrared heater, and a temperature detection unit of the power shutdown section is arranged outside the reflection member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160349675A1 FIXING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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