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
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Application No.: US12873628Application Date: 2010-09-01
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Publication No.: US08391766B2Publication Date: 2013-03-05
- Inventor: Yoshihiro Fukuhata
- Applicant: Yoshihiro Fukuhata
- 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: JP2009-201600 20090901; JP2009-219076 20090924
- Main IPC: G03G15/20
- IPC: G03G15/20

Abstract:
A fixing device includes a first member. The first member extends along a first longitudinal axis, and has an external surface whose thickness varies along the first longitudinal axis to define at least one first convex portion and at least one first concave portion. A thickness of the first convex portion is larger than a thickness of the first concave portion. A heating source is disposed in the first member. The heating temperature of an inner circumference side of the first convex portion is higher than the heating temperature of the inner circumference side of the first concave portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110052285A1 FIXING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING SAME Public/Granted day:2011-03-03
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