Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置
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Application No.: US11354002Application Date: 2006-02-15
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Publication No.: US07383007B2Publication Date: 2008-06-03
- Inventor: Tetsuo Yamada , Atsumi Kurita , Toru Inoue , Yasuyuki Kobayashi , Yasushi Nagata , Aya Kakishima , Tatsunori Izawa
- Applicant: Tetsuo Yamada , Atsumi Kurita , Toru Inoue , Yasuyuki Kobayashi , Yasushi Nagata , Aya Kakishima , Tatsunori Izawa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Priority: JPP2005-259202 20050907
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device for heating and pressing a recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image or an unfixed ink image to fix the unfixed toner image or the unfixed ink image on the recording medium, includes a heating roller which has a heating source and has an endless peripheral surface moves around an axis, a pressure roller which is pressed onto the peripheral surface of the heating roller, and presses the recording medium passing between the pressure roller and the heating roller onto the peripheral surface of the heating roller, and plural cleaning sections which are provided to make contact with the heating roller. At least one of the cleaning sections is set, at a portion making contact with the heating roller, to have a relatively negative potential with respect to a surface potential of the heating roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070053729A1 Fixing device Public/Granted day:2007-03-08
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