Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus using same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和使用其的成像装置
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Application No.: US12923032Application Date: 2010-08-30
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Publication No.: US08346117B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Kenji Ishii , Tadashi Ogawa , Satoshi Ueno , Hiroshi Seo , Masanao Ehara
- Applicant: Kenji Ishii , Tadashi Ogawa , Satoshi Ueno , Hiroshi Seo , Masanao Ehara
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2009-211522 20090914; JP2010-101562 20100427
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating source; a heating member heated by the heating source; a pressing member contacting the heating member to form a fixing nip therebetween, at which an unfixed image of toner on a recording sheet is fixed to the recording sheet; a first charging member located at an entrance of the fixing device, from which the recording sheet bearing the unfixed toner image enters the fixing device, so as to face the unfixed toner image. The first charging member is not contacted with the heating member and pressing member, and has a charge with a polarity opposite to a polarity of a charge of the toner to collect floating particles of the toner.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110064450A1 Fixing device and image forming apparatus using same Public/Granted day:2011-03-17
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