Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置
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Application No.: US13111093Application Date: 2011-05-19
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Publication No.: US08346148B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Noboru Yonekawa , Mamoru Fukaya , Naoki Yamamoto , Toru Hayase
- Applicant: Noboru Yonekawa , Mamoru Fukaya , Naoki Yamamoto , Toru Hayase
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Priority: JP2010-127575 20100603
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device thermally fixes an unfixed image on a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip. The fixing device has: a heat-generating endless belt; a first pressure member inside a running path of the endless belt; a second pressure member pressing the endless belt against the first pressure member from outside the running path to form the fixing nip, and a pair of power feeders. The endless belt includes: a circumferential resistive heat layer that generates heat upon receiving electric current; and a first electrode and a second electrode flanking a sheet passing area of the circumferential surface of the endless belt. Each electrode is composed of a pair of electrode layers, one on the inner and another on the outer circumferential surface of the resistive heat layer. Each power feeder is in contact with both the electrode layers of a different electrode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110299900A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-12-08
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