Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus comprising the same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置及包括该固定装置的图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13119008Application Date: 2009-09-08
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Publication No.: US08498562B2Publication Date: 2013-07-30
- Inventor: Noboru Yonekawa
- Applicant: Noboru Yonekawa
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2008-239702 20080918
- International Application: PCT/JP2009/004434 WO 20090908
- International Announcement: WO2010/032398 WO 20100325
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
Provided is a fixing device that uses an induction heating method and is capable of shortening a warm-up time period by accelerating the speed of increase in the temperature of a fixing belt. The fixing device forms a fixing nip by having a pressurizing roller pressurize a fixing roller, which is positioned inside a rotation path of a fixing belt having a hollow cylindrical shape, from outside the rotation path via the fixing belt. Given that Db is an inner diameter of the fixing belt, Dr is an outer diameter of the fixing roller, and a rate X is a value obtained by dividing the inner diameter Db of the fixing belt by the outer diameter Dr of the fixing roller, the fixing belt and the fixing roller that satisfy a relationship 0
Public/Granted literature
- US20110194881A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2011-08-11
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