Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus using the same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置及使用其的成像装置
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Application No.: US12559045Application Date: 2009-09-14
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Publication No.: US07986909B2Publication Date: 2011-07-26
- Inventor: Hitoshi Nanba
- Applicant: Hitoshi Nanba
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Priority: JPP2009-067696 20090319
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt member and a rotating body that are arranged to come in pressure contact with each other, the endless belt member and the rotating body having a source of heat generation; a pressing member that is arranged within the endless belt member and comes in pressure contact with the endless belt member to the rotating body; and a lubricant reservoir that is provided in the pressing member and reserves a semisolid or solid state lubricant, wherein a width in a central portion of the lubricant reservoir is wider than that in both ends of the lubricant reservoir, and widths along a length direction of the lubricant reservoir narrows from the central portion toward the both ends.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100239336A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS USING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2010-09-23
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