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.: US13113719Application Date: 2011-05-23
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Publication No.: US08606163B2Publication Date: 2013-12-10
- Inventor: Naoki Yamamoto , Mamoru Fukaya , Noboru Yonekawa , Toru Hayase
- Applicant: Naoki Yamamoto , Mamoru Fukaya , Noboru Yonekawa , 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: JP2010-126890 20100602
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/20

Abstract:
Disclosed is a fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image onto the recording sheet, the fixing device comprising: a fixing belt; and a meander regulation member provided adjacent to an edge of the fixing belt in a width direction thereof, and operable to prevent meandering of the fixing belt, wherein the fixing belt includes: a resistive heat layer that is tubular and generates heat when an electric current is applied thereto; and first and second electrodes that are provided circumferentially on an outer circumferential surface of the resistive heat layer, and that receive and apply the electric current to the resistive heat layer, and the first electrode is provided closer to the meander regulation member than to the second electrode, and is at a distance from the edge of the fixing belt in the width direction thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110299903A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-12-08
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