Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device for toner image to sheet and image forming apparatus provided with fixing device
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Application No.: US16887358Application Date: 2020-05-29
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Publication No.: US11215943B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Takafumi Nakagawa
- 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: JPJP2019-100879 20190530
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device to fix an unfixed toner image to the sheet includes a fixing belt, a guide plate, a support member and a pressing roller. The fixing belt has endless shape and rotates with a conveyance of the sheet. The guide plate guides the fixing belt from an inside of the fixing belt so as to rotate. The support member supports the fixing belt along a conveyance path of the sheet from the inside. The pressing roller presses the fixing belt on the support member from an outside of the fixing belt. The fixing belt has a belt width wider than a guide width of the guide plate in a rotational axial direction of the fixing belt. Both end edges of the guide plate in the rotational axial direction are formed to have a shape containing a shape not parallel to a rotational direction of the fixing belt.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200379389A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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