Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image forming apparatus with heating body arrangement including high conductivity heat transmission arrangement longitudinally wider than a heater substrate
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Application No.: US17729503Application Date: 2022-04-26
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Publication No.: US11868068B2Publication Date: 2024-01-09
- Inventor: Kousei Miyashita
- Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: FOLEY & LARDNER LLP
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G15/01

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a film-shaped cylindrical body, a heating body unit, a first member, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The cylindrical body has a sheet-passing region coming into contact with the sheet to fix the image to the sheet moving in a first direction. The cylindrical body is broader than the sheet-passing region in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The heating body unit includes a heating body and comes into contact with a first surface inside the cylindrical body. The first member is disposed on a second surface opposite to the first surface of the heating body. The first member has an outer end disposed outside an outer end of the sheet-passing region in the second direction. The control unit allows the heating body to generate heat inside the outer end of the sheet-passing region in the second region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220253007A1 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2022-08-11
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