Back to results
US 11,703,779 B2Granted
Fixing device and image-forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsMitsutoshi Hongo, Norio Ogawahara, Hideki Kuge, Kouichi Kimura, Takayuki Yamashita
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A fixing device includes: a heating unit configured to heat a medium to be conveyed along a conveyance path by radiation; and a shielding unit made of non-metallic material, the shielding unit being configured to form a shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is shielded and a non-shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is not shielded, in which the shielding unit being expanded in a direction intersecting the radiation in the shielding state and is stored in the non-shielding state.
Claims20
A fixing device comprising:
- a heating unit configured to heat a medium to be conveyed along a conveyance path by radiation;
- and
- a shielding unit made of non-metallic material, the shielding unit being configured to form a shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is shielded and a non-shielding state in which radiation from the heating unit is not shielded,
- wherein the shielding unit is expanded in a direction intersecting the radiation in the shielding state and is stored in the non-shielding state.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.