Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置
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Application No.: US14670521Application Date: 2015-03-27
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Publication No.: US09229394B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Tomoaki Hazeyama , Naoyuki Iwata , Yasuhiro Maruyama , Akihiro Kobayashi
- Applicant: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
- Priority: JP2014-074879 20140331
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a nip member having a contact surface that is in contact with the inner surface of the endless belt, a backup member configured to pinch the endless belt in conjunction with the nip member, an upstream guide disposed upstream of the nip portion in the rotating direction, and a regulating portion. The upstream guide and the nip member are disposed while a first gap is provided, in a conveying direction of the recording sheet, between a middle portion of the upstream guide and a middle portion of the nip member. The regulating portion and one of the upstream guide and the nip member are disposed while a second gap is provided therebetween in the conveying direction of the recording sheet. The second gap is smaller than the first gap in the conveying direction of the recording sheet.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150277314A1 Fixing Device Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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