Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device, and image forming apparatus equipped therewith
- Patent Title (中): 定影装置和配备有其的成像装置
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Application No.: US12437331Application Date: 2009-05-07
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Publication No.: US08175510B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Hisayoshi Nagase
- Applicant: Hisayoshi Nagase
- 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: JP2008-124524 20080512
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00

Abstract:
A fixing device includes: a fixing member that touches an unfixed toner image formed on a sheet; a pressing member that causes the sheet to come in pressure contact with the fixing member; a pressing belt that is interposed between the fixing member and pressing member to rotate; a lubricant coating member that coats lubricant on an inner surface of the pressing belt; a pair of first blade members each that touches, through a counter method, an inner surface of both edge portions of the pressing belt in a width direction perpendicular to a rotating direction of the pressing belt, to scrape the lubricant; and a first lubricant guide member arranged from a tip of the first blade members to an inner side, receives the scraped lubricant, and guides the lubricant to the inner side to return to the inner surface of the pressing belt.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090279929A1 FIXING DEVICE, AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS EQUIPPED THEREWITH Public/Granted day:2009-11-12
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