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US 10,254,690 B2Granted
Heater and fixing device
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Toshiba Hokuto Electronics Corporation
InventorOsamu Takagi
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Abstract
There is provided a heater according to an embodiment including a heat generating unit configured to generate heat by electric conduct ion; and a plurality of electrodes configured to be respectively disposed at facing side edges of the heat generating unit so as to be electrically connected to the heat generating unit and at least one side of the side edges is formed by cutting out a part thereof.
Claims10
A heater comprising:
- a heat generating unit configured to generate heat by electric conduction;
- a plurality of electrodes on opposite facing sides of the heat generating unit and electrically connected to the heat generating unit, at least one of the opposite facing sides having at least one groove portion extending partially through the heat generating unit;
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- a plurality of groove portions extending partially through the heat generating unit, wherein each groove portion respectively corresponds in position along one of the opposite facing sides to a space between an adjacent pair of electrodes in the plurality of electrodes.
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A fixing device comprising:
- a rotary body;
- a heat generating unit adjacent to an inside surface of the rotary body at a position where heat is transmitted from the rotary body to a medium contacting an outside surface of the rotary body the heat generating unit having a first side facing a second side;
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- a plurality of electrodes disposed on the first and second sides of the heat generating unit, a plurality of groove portions extending partially through the heat generating unit on at least the first side, each groove portion being at position respectively corresponding to a space between an adjacent pair of electrodes in the plurality of electrodes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.