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.: US13371985Application Date: 2012-02-13
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Publication No.: US08953991B2Publication Date: 2015-02-10
- Inventor: Satoshi Ueno , Tadashi Ogawa , Takeshi Uchitani , Teppei Kawata , Takamasa Hase , Kazuya Saito , Shuutaroh Yuasa , Kensuke Yamaji
- Applicant: Satoshi Ueno , Tadashi Ogawa , Takeshi Uchitani , Teppei Kawata , Takamasa Hase , Kazuya Saito , Shuutaroh Yuasa , Kensuke Yamaji
- 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: JP2011-030624 20110216
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing member configured to heat and fix a toner image onto a recording medium; a pressurizing member configured to press a heating member, which is used for heating the fixing member, against the fixing member and form a fixing nip part; and a guide member configured to guide the recording medium away from the fixing member and the pressurizing member at a downstream side of the fixing member or the pressurizing member in a conveying direction of the recording medium. The guide member includes a pushing unit for maintaining a relative positional relationship between the guide member and an outer peripheral surface of the fixing member or the pressurizing member, and the pushing unit is provided in a manner as to follow surface characteristics of outer peripheral parts of the fixing member or the pressurizing member where the pushing unit pushes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120207523A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2012-08-16
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