Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和包含其的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US12874734Application Date: 2010-09-02
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Publication No.: US08428501B2Publication Date: 2013-04-23
- Inventor: Akira Shinshi , Yoshiki Yamaguchi , Kenichi Hasegawa , Masaaki Yoshikawa , Hiroshi Yoshinaga , Kenji Ishii , Tetsuo Tokuda , Ippei Fujimoto , Yutaka Ikebuchi , Shuntaroh Tamaki , Toshihiko Shimokawa , Naoki Iwaya
- Applicant: Akira Shinshi , Yoshiki Yamaguchi , Kenichi Hasegawa , Masaaki Yoshikawa , Hiroshi Yoshinaga , Kenji Ishii , Tetsuo Tokuda , Ippei Fujimoto , Yutaka Ikebuchi , Shuntaroh Tamaki , Toshihiko Shimokawa , Naoki Iwaya
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-203496 20090903; JP2010-107361 20100507
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
In a fixing device, a nip formation member is provided inside a loop formed by a fixing member rotating in a predetermined direction of rotation. A pressing member is pressed against the nip formation member via the fixing member to form a nip between the fixing member and the pressing member through which a recording medium bearing a toner image passes. The fixing member and the pressing member rotate and convey the recording medium bearing the toner image through the nip. The heat conduction member faces an inner circumferential surface of the fixing member to guide the fixing member sliding over the heat conduction member and to transmit heat to the fixing member. The heat conduction member includes a plurality of convex portions provided on an outer circumferential surface of the heat conduction member and contacting the inner circumferential surface of the fixing member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110052282A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2011-03-03
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