Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device including outlet guide member and image forming apparatus thereof
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Application No.: US15070735Application Date: 2016-03-15
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Publication No.: US09753417B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Yoshiki Yamaguchi , Yoshio Hattori , Haruyuki Honda , Ryuuichi Mimbu , Toshihiko Shimokawa , Yutaka Ikebuchi , Yasunori Ishigaya , Kazuya Saito , Keitaro Shoji , Ryohei Matsuda
- Applicant: Yoshiki Yamaguchi , Yoshio Hattori , Haruyuki Honda , Ryuuichi Mimbu , Toshihiko Shimokawa , Yutaka Ikebuchi , Yasunori Ishigaya , Kazuya Saito , Keitaro Shoji , Ryohei Matsuda
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2015-056600 20150319
- Main IPC: G03G15/00
- IPC: G03G15/00 ; G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt; a pressure roller to contact the fixing belt; a nip forming member to press the pressure roller from the fixing belt; a nip portion formed between the fixing belt and the pressure roller; a heater to heat the fixing belt to fuse and fix toner onto a recording sheet in the nip portion; an auxiliary driven roller; an auxiliary drive roller to drive the driven roller; an auxiliary nip portion, formed between an outer circumferential surface of the auxiliary driven roller and an outer circumferential surface of the auxiliary drive roller, to nip the recording sheet after toner fixation conveyed from the nip portion; and an outlet guide member, disposed downstream of the auxiliary nip portion, to guide the recording sheet after toner fixation conveyed from the auxiliary nip portion, with the toner-fixed recording sheet surface bent in a concave shape.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160274516A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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