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US09256171B2 Fusing device including a guide member to guide a printing medium and image forming apparatus having the same 有权
定影装置包括引导构件以引导打印介质和具有该定影装置的图像形成装置

Fusing device including a guide member to guide a printing medium and image forming apparatus having the same
Abstract:
A fusing device and an image forming apparatus including the fusing device are provided, the fusing device having a structure that ensures a stable transport of a printing medium by preventing a printing medium from deviating from a transport path between a transfer nip and a fusing nip. The fusing device includes a heating member, a pressing member to contact the heating member to form a fusing nip, and a guide member to guide a printing medium to the fusing nip. An end of the guide member is shaped such that a height of the end decreases as the end extends from a center thereof to opposite sides thereof, and disposed closer to the heating member than to the pressing member, with respect to an imaginary line extending from the fusing nip.
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