Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device having thermally-conductive member connected to thermo-electric conversion element, image forming device, and induction heating device
- Patent Title (中): 具有连接到热电转换元件,图像形成装置和感应加热装置的导热部件的固定装置
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Application No.: US14483609Application Date: 2014-09-11
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Publication No.: US09316974B2Publication Date: 2016-04-19
- Inventor: Hiroshi Yamaguchi , Isao Watanabe , Yasutaka Tanimura , Hiroshi Hiraguchi , Mineo Yamamoto , Toshinori Inomoto
- Applicant: Konica Minolta, Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2013-189649 20130912
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device thermally fixes an unfixed image onto a sheet through heat of a heating body that is heated through electromagnetic induction, the fixing device including an excitation coil generating flux for heating the heating body; one or more core members disposed opposite the heating body with respect to the excitation coil; a thermo-electric conversion element disposed farther from the excitation coil than the core members; and a thermally conductive member connected to the excitation coil and to a heat-absorbing face of the thermo-electric conversion element, transferring heat from the excitation coil to the thermo-electric conversion element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150071689A1 FIXING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, AND INDUCTION HEATING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-03-12
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