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.: US13912361Application Date: 2013-06-07
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Publication No.: US09002250B2Publication Date: 2015-04-07
- Inventor: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto , Yasuhiro Uehara , Kazuyoshi Ito , Taketoshi Higashi , Kenji Sawai
- Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2012-228167 20121015
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt that fixes toner onto a recording medium by heat, a heating member in the form of substantially a sheet that has flexibility and that heats the belt from inside a space enclosed by the belt, and a stationary member including a curved surface that is in contact with the heating member, a fixed area in the curved surface in which the heating member is fixed to the stationary member, and a non-fixed area in the curved surface in which the heating member is not fixed to the stationary member, the stationary member having a coefficient of linear expansion different from that of the heating member. The belt is wound around the stationary member via a layer that includes the heating member, and rigidities of the belt and the heating member are lower than a rigidity of the stationary member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140105656A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-04-17
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