Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus with inclined regulation surface
- Patent Title (中): 具有倾斜调节面的固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US14243770Application Date: 2014-04-02
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Publication No.: US09201368B2Publication Date: 2015-12-01
- Inventor: Yuzuru Nanjo , Masaru Takagi
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Alleman Hall McCoy Russell & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JP2013-078498 20130404
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing roller, a pressure roller, and a regulation member. The fixing roller includes a roller member and a fixing belt. The roller member includes a shaft which extends in one direction and an elastic layer integrally formed on the shaft. Each regulation member has an annular regulation surface which opposes a side edge of the fixing belt, and is configured to regulate movement of the fixing belt in a rotation axis direction. The regulation surface is inclined relative to a line perpendicular to the rotation axis as viewed on a cross-section parallel to the rotation axis. The regulation surface is inclined from the rotation axis side such that the closer the regulation surface is to an outside, in a radial direction, of the fixing roller, the closer the regulation surface is to a center, in a length direction, of the shaft.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140301760A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-10-09
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