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.: US13729610Application Date: 2012-12-28
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Publication No.: US08774693B2Publication Date: 2014-07-08
- Inventor: Shinji Yamana
- Applicant: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.
- Priority: JP2011-287841 20111228
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device is provided with an endless fixing belt; a heating roller for heating the fixing belt; a fixing roller that has a shaft and extends the fixing belt between the fixing roller and the heating roller; a pressure roller for pressurizing the fixing roller via the fixing belt; and a deviation preventing member that is provided on the shaft of the fixing roller and suppresses moving of the fixing roller in a shaft direction. The fixing roller has an end portion with high hardness and an end portion with low hardness along the shaft direction of the fixing roller. The end portion with high hardness is in contact with the deviation preventing member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130170881A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-07-04
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