Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15830212Application Date: 2017-12-04
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Publication No.: US10222728B2Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Shota Onishi , Masuo Kawamoto
- 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: JP2016-237806 20161207
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G15/00

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating body, a pressuring body, a lateral plate supporting the heating or pressuring body, a first supporting body supporting the heating or pressuring body, a second supporting body including a roller, a tensile spring between the first and second supporting bodies, an eccentric cam, a rotating shaft, a protrusion, a driving part, and a pressing member. The cam is supported between the first and second supporting bodies swingable in the lateral plate and has a depression gradually inclined from an upstream side to a downstream side in a rotation direction. The protrusion is protruded from the rotating shaft and meets the depression. The pressing member presses the cam opposite the protrusion. The cam rotates and meets the roller to shift the second supporting body and to extend and contract the spring, and changes a nip pressure from a first pressure to a lower second pressure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180157199A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-06-07
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