Fuser
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Ikeno
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Abstract
A fuser, having a heater, a holder, and a first wire spring, is provided. The heater is in a form of a planar plate and has a first face and a second face. The holder has a supporting base supporting the first face of the heater. The first wire spring retain the heater on the holder. The first wire spring has a first facing portion, a first engageable portion, and a second engageable portion. The first facing portion faces and supports the second face of the heater. The first engageable portion and the second engageable portion extend from one and the other ends of the first facing portion. The first engageable portion and the second engageable portion are engageable with the holder in an end area on one side and an end area on the other side of the heater in a widthwise direction.
Claims17
A fuser comprising:
- a heater in a form of a planar plate, the heater having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face;
- a holder having a supporting base, the supporting base supporting the first face of the heater;
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- a first wire spring retaining the heater on the holder, the first wire spring having:
- a first facing portion facing and supporting the second face of the heater;
- a first engageable portion extending from one end of the first facing portion, the first engageable portion being engageable with the holder in an end area on one side of the heater in a widthwise direction, the widthwise direction intersecting orthogonally with a lengthwise direction of the heater;
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- a second engageable portion extending from the other end of the first facing portion, the second engageable portion being engageable with the heater in an end area on the other side of the heater in the widthwise direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.