Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same
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Application No.: US15132537Application Date: 2016-04-19
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Publication No.: US09632462B2Publication Date: 2017-04-25
- Inventor: Shinji Yamane
- Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
- Current Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2015-089072 20150424
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
An electricity removing unit 50 includes a rotating roller part 51, a brush part 52, a driving part, and a restraint member. The brush part 52 includes a plurality of conductive fiber bristles 52a having base end portions connected to a peripheral surface of the rotating roller part 51. The driving part rotationally drives the rotating roller part 51. The restraint member abuts the brush part 52 from a rotation downstream side, thereby inclining the plurality of conductive fiber bristles 52a to an upstream side from a downstream side of a rotational direction toward a radial outside and thus reforming them. In this way, the restraint member restrains a distance between a front end of each conductive fiber bristle 52a and the peripheral surface of the rotating roller part 51 to a setting distance set in advance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160313678A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2016-10-27
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