Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus that reduce rotation failure of fixing belt
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Application No.: US15265525Application Date: 2016-09-14
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Publication No.: US09804547B2Publication Date: 2017-10-31
- Inventor: Yoshihiro Yamagishi , Kotatsu Kawaguchi , Takashi Eiki , Takefumi Yotsutsuji
- 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: Stein IP, LLC
- Priority: JP2015-199303 20151007
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing belt rotatably located around a rotation axis, a pressure member rotatably located, and a pressing member. The pressure member is brought into pressure contact with the fixing belt to form a fixing nip. The pressing member includes a pressing surface that presses the fixing belt toward a side of the pressure member. The pressing surface includes a plane surface portion extending along a conveyance direction of a recording medium, and a curved surface portion located at a downstream side of the plane surface portion in the conveyance direction of the recording medium. The curved surface portion is curved along an outer peripheral surface of the pressure member. The curved surface portion has a curvature radius larger than a curvature radius of the outer peripheral surface of the pressure member before a deformation in association with a formation of the fixing nip.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170102655A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS THAT REDUCE ROTATION FAILURE OF FIXING BELT Public/Granted day:2017-04-13
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