Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device including collecting part collecting impurities of medium and image forming apparatus including this fixing device
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Application No.: US15869143Application Date: 2018-01-12
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Publication No.: US10175616B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Einosuke Kikuchi
- 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: Studebaker & Brackett PC
- Priority: JP2017-015558 20170131
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating body, a pressuring body, a charging part and a collecting part. The heating body contacts with a medium having a toner image while rotating to heat the medium. The pressuring body forms a nip with the heating roller while rotating to pressure the medium passing through the nip with the heating body. The charging part is positioned to face to the heating body and electrically discharges to electrically charge the heating body with the same polarity as polarity of toner. The collecting part is positioned to face to a position at an upstream side with respect to a facing position on the heating body to the charging part and at a downstream side with respect to a forming position of the nip in a rotating direction of the heating body, and collects impurities caused by the medium passing the nip by absorbing or removing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180217532A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-08-02
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