Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus with a mechanism to extend life of a fixing belt
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和成像装置具有延长定影带寿命的机构
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Application No.: US13112325Application Date: 2011-05-20
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Publication No.: US08639170B2Publication Date: 2014-01-28
- 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: JP2010-127576 20100603
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device for thermally fixing an unfixed image formed on a recording sheet by passing the recording sheet through a fixing nip. The fixing device has: a heat-generating endless belt having, on a circumferential surface thereof, a sheet passing area through which the recording sheet passes; a first pressure member disposed inside a running path of the endless belt; and a second pressure member disposed to press the endless belt against the first pressure member from outside the running path to form the fixing nip. The endless belt includes: a resistive heat layer that generates heat upon receiving electric current; and a pair of electrode layers that receive electric current. The electrode layers flank the sheet passing area. The resistive heat layer is in contact with the electrode layers at a different one of end faces opposing each other in a width direction of the resistive heat layer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110299901A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-12-08
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