Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device capable of restraining frictional wearing of nip member and roller
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Application No.: US15457353Application Date: 2017-03-13
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Publication No.: US10007218B2Publication Date: 2018-06-26
- Inventor: Noboru Suzuki
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2016-108850 20160531
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device has: a nip member; a tubular belt looped around the nip member and including a metal tube, the metal tube having an outer peripheral surface; and a roller having a shaft and an elastic portion covering the shaft, the roller defining an axial direction, the elastic portion and the nip member being configured to nip a predetermined portion of the tubular belt. The outer peripheral surface of the metal tube has an end region in the axial direction, and a rough region between the end regions. The rough region has a surface roughness greater than a surface roughness of the end region. And the end region and the rough region provide a boundary region, therebetween which is positioned outward of the predetermined region in the axial direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170343940A1 FIXING DEVICE CAPABLE OF RESTRAINING FRICTIONAL WEARING OF NIP MEMBER AND ROLLER Public/Granted day:2017-11-30
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