Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorKoichi Imazu
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Abstract
A fixing device includes a circulating endless belt, a fixing unit that is in contact with the belt to form a fixing nip, a heat source provided on an inner side of the belt or on an inner side of the fixing unit, a pressurizing unit arranged on the inner side of the belt to pressurize the belt against the fixing unit, a sheet interposed between the belt and the pressurizing unit to reduce a sliding resistance, and a restricting unit that restricts movement of the sheet in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the belt at a position near a downstream side of the pressurizing unit in the moving direction of the belt.
Claims9
A fixing device, comprising:
- a circulating endless belt;
- a fixing unit that is in contact with the belt to form a fixing nip;
- a heat source provided on an inner side of the belt or on an inner side of the fixing unit;
- a pressurizing unit arranged on the inner side of the belt to pressurize the belt against the fixing unit;
- a sheet interposed between the belt and the pressurizing unit to reduce a sliding resistance;
- and
- a restricting unit that restricts movement of the sheet in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the belt at a position near a downstream side of the pressurizing unit in the moving direction of the belt.
A fixing device, comprising:
- a circulating endless belt;
- fixing means that is in contact with the belt to form a fixing nip;
- a heat source provided on an inner side of the belt or on an inner side of the fixing means;
- pressurizing means arranged on the inner side of the belt to pressurize the belt against the fixing means;
- a sheet interposed between the belt and the pressurizing means to reduce a sliding resistance;
- and
- restricting means for restricting movement of the sheet in a direction opposite to a moving direction of the belt at a position near a downstream side of the pressurizing means in the moving direction of the belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.