Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing apparatus
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Application No.: US16122502Application Date: 2018-09-05
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Publication No.: US10564579B2Publication Date: 2020-02-18
- Inventor: Kenichi Ogawa , Takashi Narahara , Toru Imaizumi , Yasuhito Minamishima , Tsuguhiro Yoshida , Masashi Tanaka , Kensuke Umeda
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2014-203020 20141001; JP2014-232199 20141114
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing apparatus for fixing a toner image to a recording material includes a cylindrical film, a heater configured to make contact with the film, the heater including a substrate and a heat generation resistor formed on the substrate, and a heat conduction member configured to make contact with a surface of the heater opposite to a surface thereof being in contact with the film, the heat conduction member having a higher thermal conductivity than that of the substrate, and being divided into parts in a generatrix direction of the film. The toner image formed on the recording material is fixed on the recording material by using heat of the film, and one of the parts of the heat conduction member is configured to make contact with the heater continuously from a center to an end of a heat generation region of the heater in the generatrix direction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190004460A1 FIXING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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