Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置
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Application No.: US14664153Application Date: 2015-03-20
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Publication No.: US09507300B2Publication Date: 2016-11-29
- Inventor: Toru Hayase , Mamoru Fukaya , Naoki Kataoka , Tsuyoshi Tamaru
- 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: JP2014-057579 20140320
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G21/16

Abstract:
A fixing device having: a heating unit; a first rotating member and rotating in a first rotational direction; a second rotating member contacting the first rotating member and thereby forming a nip through which a printing medium passes, wherein the second rotating member rotates in a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction; a reflective member provided around the first rotating member and having a reflection surface provided so as to face the first rotating member; and an inhibitory member inhibiting air in a space between the reflective member and the first rotating member from flowing out through a first gap between a downstream end of the reflective member in the first rotational direction and a closest portion of the first rotating member to the downstream end of the reflective member, wherein the inhibitory member overlaps with a part of the first gap.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150268607A1 FIXING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2015-09-24
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