Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing belt, fixing unit and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定带，定影单元和成像设备
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Application No.: US12483960Application Date: 2009-06-12
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Publication No.: US07885593B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Koji Takahashi
- Applicant: Koji Takahashi
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2005-156540 20050530
- Main IPC: G03G15/16
- IPC: G03G15/16
Abstract:
In a fixing unit which drivingly rotates an endless fixing belt having a lubricant applied to an inside surface thereof and which presses the fixing belt against a recording medium formed with a toner image thereon thereby fixing the toner image to the recording medium, the inside surface of the fixing belt is formed with a plurality of grooves extended along a circumferential direction of the fixing belt or extended from a widthwise center of the fixing belt toward the opposite ends thereof as inclined in a moving direction of the fixing belt.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090304422A1 FIXING BELT, FIXING UNIT AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2009-12-10
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