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.: US14050790Application Date: 2013-10-10
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Publication No.: US09383692B2Publication Date: 2016-07-05
- Inventor: Satoshi Ueno , Jun Okamoto , Tetsuo Tokuda , Naoto Suzuki , Takashi Sakamaki , Fumihiro Hirose , Motoyoshi Yamano
- Applicant: Satoshi Ueno , Jun Okamoto , Tetsuo Tokuda , Naoto Suzuki , Takashi Sakamaki , Fumihiro Hirose , Motoyoshi Yamano
- 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: JP2012-234604 20121024; JP2013-016718 20130131
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G21/20
Abstract:
A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body to come into contact with a toner image on a recording medium and a pressing rotary body separably pressed against the fixing rotary body to press the recording medium against the fixing rotary body. A cooler, disposed opposite the pressing rotary body to cool the pressing rotary body, includes a fan to move air to the pressing rotary body and at least one inlet duct interposed between the fan and the pressing rotary body to supply air from the fan to the pressing rotary body. The at least one inlet duct selectively cools the pressing rotary body in a variable axial span in an axial direction thereof.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140112680A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2014-04-24
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