Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image formation apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12485092Application Date: 2009-06-16
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Publication No.: US08145113B2Publication Date: 2012-03-27
- Inventor: Masanori Murakami , Fumio Masuda
- Applicant: Masanori Murakami , Fumio Masuda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2008-160575 20080619
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device forms a fixing nip by pressing a first roller, which is inside a rotation path of a rotating belt, with a second roller via the belt, and thermally fixes an unfixed image formed on a sheet S by passing the sheet S through the fixing nip while heating the belt by electromagnetic induction. The fixing device comprises an excitation coil positioned outside said path, and a fixed plate that (i) is inside said path, substantially facing the excitation coil via the belt, (ii) contacts an inner surface of the belt, and (iii) keeps the belt on said path. A base member of the belt is a conductive heat generation layer containing no magnetic shunt alloy. The fixed plate includes a conductive layer and a magnetic shunt alloy layer that is closer to the belt than the conductive layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090317158A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-12-24
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