Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置
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Application No.: US14667807Application Date: 2015-03-25
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Publication No.: US09329546B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- 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: JP2014-074062 20140331
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a backup roller, and a nip member having a first slide contact surface, a second slide contact surface, and a connecting surface connecting the first and second slide contact surfaces. A curvature radius of the second slide contact surface is greater than that of the backup roller in cross section perpendicular to an axis of the backup roller. The connecting surface is disposed between a first imaginary plane and a second imaginary plane, the first imaginary plane including an edge of the endless belt and extending perpendicularly to the axis of the backup roller, the second imaginary plane including an end of a maximum image area proximate to the edge of the endless belt and extending perpendicularly to the axis of the backup roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150277318A1 Fixing Device Public/Granted day:2015-10-01
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