TEMPERATURE SENSOR PLACEMENT FOR HEATER SUBSTRATE IN FUSER

    公开(公告)号:US20230097936A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17908594

    申请日:2021-02-04

    Abstract: An example fuser includes a flexible fixing belt, a backup member to form a fixing nip with the fixing belt, a heater substrate for heating the fixing belt at the fixing nip and having a first surface comprising a heating element pattern, a common terminal and a driving power supply terminal for supplying power to the heating element pattern, and a second surface in contact with the fixing belt, and a temperature sensor sheet comprising a temperature sensor, a sensing terminal and an electric wire connecting the temperature sensor to the sensing terminal, wherein the temperature sensor sheet is in contact with the first surface of the heater substrate such that the sensing terminal and the electrical wire do not overlap the common terminal and the driving power supply terminal.

    FIXING BELT WITH HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY

    公开(公告)号:US20210373473A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-02

    申请号:US17282940

    申请日:2019-09-19

    Abstract: A fixing belt includes a substrate layer including a first base resin and a first thermally conductive filler dispersed in the first base resin; and a release layer provided on the substrate layer, wherein the first base resin includes at least one selected from a polyimide, a polyamide, and a polyamideimide, and the first thermally conductive filler includes at least one selected from carbon black, graphite, boron nitride (BN), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and carbon fibers, and the substrate layer has a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction of about 1.5W/m-K or more.

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