Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Belt offset correction device, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US16597436Application Date: 2019-10-09
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Publication No.: US10996597B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Kimihide Tsukamoto
- Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Sakai
- Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Sakai
- Agency: ScienBiziP, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-192909 20181011
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G15/00 ; G03G15/16

Abstract:
A pair of pressure members are disposed at both ends of a pressure roller and rotatably support the pressure roller to press the pressure roller against a fixing roller including an elastic layer via a fixing belt. One of the pressure members that includes a fulcrum engaging section engaged with a rotation fulcrum at one end and is locked to a biasing member at a side opposite to the fulcrum engaging section is moved by a moving member in a direction intersecting a pressing direction of the pressure roller in a state where deformation of the elastic layer is regulated. Thus, a force acting on a fixing nip formed by the deformation of the elastic layer of the fixing roller is stabilized. As a result, the traveling performance of the fixing belt is stabilized, whereby the offset control can be performed with high accuracy.
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