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.: US13671082Application Date: 2012-11-07
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Publication No.: US09052650B2Publication Date: 2015-06-09
- Inventor: Motoyoshi Yamano , Jun Okamoto , Tetsuo Tokuda , Takashi Sakamaki , Satoshi Ueno , Naoto Suzuki , Fumihiro Hirose
- Applicant: Motoyoshi Yamano , Jun Okamoto , Tetsuo Tokuda , Takashi Sakamaki , Satoshi Ueno , Naoto Suzuki , Fumihiro Hirose
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2011-265466 20111205
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium by heating the recording medium, with a heating area and a non-heating area selected in accordance with a magnetic flux and a repulsive magnetic flux. The fixing device includes a heat generating layer, an exciting coil, and a demagnetizing member. The heat generating layer generates heat. The exciting coil generates the magnetic flux, and thereby inductively heats the heat generating layer. The demagnetizing member faces the heat generating layer in the non-heating area. The demagnetizing member generates the repulsive magnetic flux against the magnetic flux generated by the exciting coil, and thereby demagnetizes the magnetic flux and suppresses the heating. Further, the demagnetizing member has a demagnetization effect different between at least a portion of the non-heating area adjacent to the heating area and the remaining portion of the non-heating area.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130142551A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2013-06-06
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