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.: US13357135Application Date: 2012-01-24
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Publication No.: US08693932B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Jun Okamoto
- Applicant: Jun Okamoto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-017982 20110131
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device that fixes a toner image on a recording medium while the recording medium is conveyed by passing through a nip formed by a heating member and a pressing member including: a cleaning unit that is provided in at least any one of the heating member and the pressing member for removing toner adhered thereto. The cleaning unit is in contact with a member to be cleaned and a rotating cleaning member is in contact with the member to be cleaned in a downstream side of the cleaning unit in a rotation direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120195623A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-08-02
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