Invention Application
- Patent Title: Fixing unit and image forming apparatus having the same
- Patent Title (中): 固定单元和具有该固定单元的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US11483559Application Date: 2006-07-11
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Publication No.: US20070020003A1Publication Date: 2007-01-25
- Inventor: Dong-kyun Kang , Jae-hyeok Jang , Seung-jun Lee
- Applicant: Dong-kyun Kang , Jae-hyeok Jang , Seung-jun Lee
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Priority: KR10-2005-0065671 20050720
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing unit and an image forming apparatus are provided. The fixing unit applies heat and pressure to a print medium on which a toner image is formed and fixes the toner image on the print medium. The fixing unit includes a heating roller including a heating source, at least two pressurizing rollers which are pressed against the heating roller along an outer circumferential surface of the heating roller, adhesion elastic bodies which elastically press the pressurizing rollers toward the heating roller at first locations of both ends of the pressurizing rollers, and correction elastic bodies which elastically press the pressurizing rollers at second locations of both ends of the pressurizing rollers in the opposite direction of the adhesion elastic bodies. With this structure, the fixing unit forms sufficient fixing nips to reliably fix toner images on the print medium while maintaining a compact structure. Furthermore, this structure increases the life span of the apparatus by minimizing deformation of the pressurizing roller.
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