Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image formation apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和图像形成装置
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Application No.: US13437780Application Date: 2012-04-02
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Publication No.: US08600278B2Publication Date: 2013-12-03
- Inventor: Masanori Murakami , Tetsuya Kagawa
- Applicant: Masanori Murakami , Tetsuya Kagawa
- 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: JP2008-159959 20080619; JP2008-193575 20080728
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device for thermally fixing onto a sheet, an unfixed image formed on the sheet, includes: an endless belt that is heated by electromagnetic induction while being driven to rotate; a curved member that is positioned inside a rotation path of the belt and that is curved in an arc shape along the rotation path of the belt; a magnetic flux generator that (i) is positioned outside the rotation path of the belt, facing the curved member with the belt in between, and (ii) generates magnetic flux for heating the belt; a heat generation layer that is provided on the belt; a magnetic shunt alloy layer that is provided along the curved member, facing a protruding side of the curved member; and a magnetic flux nullifying layer that is provided on the curved member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120189361A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMATION APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-07-26
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