Fuser including rotation body and endless belt
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomoaki Hazeyama
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AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomoaki Hazeyama
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A fuser includes: a heater; a rotation body which is heated by the heater; an endless belt; an elastic pad which is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of the endless belt to form a nip portion with the endless belt intervening between the elastic pad and the rotation body; and a wall surrounded by the endless belt and disposed downstream of the elastic pad in a moving direction of the endless belt in the nip portion. The wall has a surface facing the elastic pad in the moving direction. The surface includes: contact portions positioned at both ends in a width direction of the endless belt and in contact with the elastic pad; and a center portion positioned between the contact portions in the width direction, at a downstream side of the contact portions in the moving direction.
A fuser, comprising:
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