Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuser and image-forming apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 定影器和图像形成装置
-
Application No.: US13553111Application Date: 2012-07-19
-
Publication No.: US08879972B2Publication Date: 2014-11-04
- Inventor: Hisashi Kawamoto , Kenji Maeda , Kenji Taguchi , Yukari Isoe , Toshiki Yokoyama
- Applicant: Hisashi Kawamoto , Kenji Maeda , Kenji Taguchi , Yukari Isoe , Toshiki Yokoyama
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-159836 20110721
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fuser includes a cylindrical heating rotating body including a heat generator and a pressure rotating body including a circumferential face which has contact with the heating rotating body to form a nip portion for fusing, wherein a disk-like outside plate, which is exposed outside, is provided in one end or both ends of the heating rotating body in a rotation axis direction, a disk-like inside plate is provided in an inner circumferential face of the heating rotating body on an inside of the outside plate to have an interval relative to the outside plate, a center vent is provided near a center of the outside plate, an outer edge vent is provided in an outer edge or the neighborhood thereof of the outside plate, and a flow path, which connects the center vent and the outer edge vent, is provided between the outside vent and the inside vent.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130022381A1 FUSER AND IMAGE-FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-01-24
Information query