Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus
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Application No.: US15718279Application Date: 2017-09-28
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Publication No.: US10281849B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Yuusuke Ukai
- 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: JP2016-210515 20161027
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a heating roller to be heated by a heat source, a pair of rollers composed of an upper-side pressure roller and a lower-side pressure roller both for pressing a sheet, and a fixing belt wound around the heating roller and the upper-side pressure roller, in which, in a space surrounded by the fixing belt, a shield for shielding heat from the upper-side pressure roller is disposed to face the upper-side pressure roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180120740A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-05-03
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