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US 11,500,313 B2Granted
Imaging system including heating element and cooling device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorTakayuki Horie
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Abstract
An imaging system includes: a conveyor belt that conveys a medium having a toner image fixed thereto, along a conveying route; a heating element to heat the conveyor belt; and a pressing roller to press the conveyor belt against the heating element. The heating element may have a planar surface adjacent to an inner peripheral surface of the conveyor belt.
Claims17
An imaging system comprising:
- an endless belt to convey a medium having a toner image fixed thereto, along a conveying route in a conveying direction;
- a pair of rollers including a first roller and a second roller, to engage with the endless belt;
- a heating element located between the first roller and the second roller along the conveying route, the heating element having a planar surface adjacent to an inner peripheral surface of the endless belt;
- a pressing roller to apply a pressure to the medium conveyed by the endless belt, wherein the pressing roller is located on a side of the endless belt that is opposite to the planar surface of the heating element;
- a cooling device located downstream from the heating element in the conveying direction of the conveying route of the medium, between the first roller and the second roller;
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- an external roller, including a heating element, located upstream from the heating element in the conveying direction of the conveying route of the medium and adjacent to an outer peripheral side of the endless belt to directly contact a portion of the endless belt that engages with the second roller.
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An imaging system comprising:
- an endless belt to convey a medium having a toner image fixed thereto, along a conveying route;
- a pressing roller located adjacent the endless belt to apply a pressure to the medium;
- a heating element located adjacent to an inner peripheral surface of the endless belt, the heating element including a first heated surface portion to contact a portion of the endless belt adjacent to the pressing roller and a second heated surface portion located upstream from the first heated surface portion to heat the medium to be supplied to the pressing roller;
- a cooling device located downstream from the heating element in a conveying direction of the medium, to cool the endless belt;
- a heating roller located upstream from the pressing roller in the conveying route, the heating roller to directly contact a surface of the endless belt that is opposite to the inner peripheral surface of the endless belt;
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- an assisting roller located upstream from the pressing roller in the conveying route, the assisting roller to directly contact the surface of the endless belt that is opposite to the inner peripheral surface of the endless belt.
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An imaging system comprising:
- a conveyor belt to convey a medium having a toner image fixed thereto, along a conveying route in a conveying direction;
- a heating element having a heated surface to heat the conveyor belt;
- a pressing roller located on a side of the conveyor belt that is opposite to the heated surface of the heating element, the pressing roller to press the conveyor belt against the heated surface in a pressing region;
- a heating roller located upstream from the pressing roller in the conveying route and adjacent to the side of the conveyor belt that is opposite to the heated surface of the heating element;
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- an assisting roller located upstream from the pressing roller in the conveying route, the assisting roller to directly contact the side of the conveyor belt that is opposite to the heated surface of the heating element,
- wherein the heated surface of the heating element is longer in the conveying direction than the pressing region between the heated surface and the pressing roller.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.