Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US12015269Application Date: 2008-01-16
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Publication No.: US07953349B2Publication Date: 2011-05-31
- Inventor: Shougo Fukai
- Applicant: Shougo Fukai
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2007-056844 20070307
- Main IPC: G03G15/22
- IPC: G03G15/22

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus for fixing an toner image transferred onto a paper sheet, including: a fixing roller having a heater and an elastic layer on an external circumference surface thereof; a fixing belt driven by the fixing roller; a pressuring member which forms a nip portion between the fixing roller and the fixing belt; a separating member being arranged in a down stream of the pressuring member in a conveyance direction of a paper sheet, and being arranged to press the fixing belt; a pressing member which presses an edge of the separating member in a direction to which the fixing belt is pressed, and changes a position of the separating member relative to the fixing roller; and a plurality of adjusting members being provided in a longitudinal direction of the separating member and being arranged to adjust a position of the pressing member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080219726A1 FIXING APPARATUS AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2008-09-11
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