Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming device
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Application No.: US16850090Application Date: 2020-04-16
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Publication No.: US10915044B2Publication Date: 2021-02-09
- Inventor: Shuji Yokoyama
- Applicant: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Amin, Turocy & Watson LLP
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a fixing device fixes a toner image formed on a medium to the medium. The fixing device includes a heating rotator which is rotatably supported, an auxiliary heating member which is disposed along an inner circumferential surface of the heating rotator, and swings as the heating rotator rotates, a lubricant supply member which is disposed at a position on which the swing auxiliary heating member abuts, and is impregnated with a lubricant, and a pressing rotator which abuts on the heating rotator, and forms a nip portion through which the medium passes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200249599A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2020-08-06
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