Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same
- Patent Title (中): 固定装置和包含其的图像形成装置
-
Application No.: US12876589Application Date: 2010-09-07
-
Publication No.: US08391743B2Publication Date: 2013-03-05
- Inventor: Yoshiki Yamaguchi , Masanao Ehara , Naoki Iwaya , Yutaka Ikebuchi
- Applicant: Yoshiki Yamaguchi , Masanao Ehara , Naoki Iwaya , Yutaka Ikebuchi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-213305 20090915
- Main IPC: G03G21/00
- IPC: G03G21/00

Abstract:
A fixing device to fix a toner image on a sheet of recording media, the fixing device includes a fixing rotary member to heat the toner image on the sheet of the recording media, a pressure rotary member pressed against the fixing rotary member, a conveyance guide member arranged to a fixing nip at the upstream side of a conveyance direction of the sheet to support the sheet going to the fixing nip, a scraper arranged to the conveyance guide member at the opposite side on the basis of the conveyance direction. The end of the conveyance guide member contacts with the scraper, when the conveyance guide member turns on a rotary axis of the guide member.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110064451A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2011-03-17
Information query