Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15159510Application Date: 2016-05-19
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Publication No.: US09857738B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Keita Saito , Noboru Oomoto , Shinichi Yabuki , Tadayasu Sekioka
- Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Priority: JP2015-112298 20150602
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20 ; G03G21/20

Abstract:
In a fixing device for fixing a toner image to a recording medium by heating and pressing the recording medium with transferred toner image between a heat fixing member and a pressure member, a fixing-member housing is disposed on an outer peripheral side of the heat fixing member, while a reflection member is attached to an inner side of the fixing-member housing opposed to the heat fixing member. Air blown by an air blower is circulated through space between the fixing-member housing and the heat fixing member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160357144A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
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