Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US13552942Application Date: 2012-07-19
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Publication No.: US08862040B2Publication Date: 2014-10-14
- Inventor: Koji Okabe , Yasutaka Gotoh , Yuki Kubota , Takayuki Ryu
- Applicant: Koji Okabe , Yasutaka Gotoh , Yuki Kubota , Takayuki Ryu
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2012-066644 20120323
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing member that is rotatable and heated by a heater; an endless belt member that is rotatable while being in contact with the fixing member; and a pressing member that is disposed inside of the belt member. The pressing member presses the fixing member with the belt member therebetween so as to form a fixing nip between the fixing member and the belt member, the fixing nip allowing a recording medium to pass therethrough to fix a toner image onto the recording medium. In an output region of the fixing nip from which the recording medium is output from the fixing nip, a curvature of a cross-sectional shape of an end portion of the belt member in a width direction is larger than a curvature of a cross-sectional shape of a middle portion of the belt member in the width direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130251420A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-09-26
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