Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device having a preventing member that prevents folding of an end portion of a film
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Application No.: US15869238Application Date: 2018-01-12
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Publication No.: US10429782B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Takashi Honke , Satoru Taniguchi , Masaki Hirose , Taisuke Minagawa , Keita Nakajima , Kazushi Nishikata , Fumiki Inui , Koichi Yamada
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Venable LLP
- Priority: JP2017-003824 20170113
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a cylindrical film a pressing member, and a preventing member including a preventing surface configured to prevent movement of the film in a longitudinal direction, and a film rotation guiding surface. As viewed in the longitudinal direction of the film, the preventing surface includes first and second regions positioned downstream and upstream, respectively, of a nip center line with respect to a recording material feeding direction. The first region retracts from a longitudinal film end surface relative to the second region. The second region continuously extends in the recording material feeding direction from a portion upstream of the nip center line to a portion downstream of the nip center line, and has a length, with respect to a rotational direction of the film, that is greater at the portion upstream of the nip center line than at the portion downstream of the nip center line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180203390A1 FIXING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2018-07-19
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