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US 12,313,989 B2Granted
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorTakayuki Yamashita
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Abstract
A fixing device includes: a heating section that heats in a non-contact manner a front surface of a recording medium; a feeding section that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the heating section; and a maintaining section that, in order to enable the recording medium to be fed by the feeding section while a rear surface that is opposite to the front surface, and that is in an image region where an unfixed-image is formed on the front surface is in a non-contact state, maintains the non-contact state.
Claims9
A fixing device comprising:
- a first heater that heats a front surface of a recording medium in a non-contact manner;
- a second heater that is downstream of the first heater, that pressurizes the recording medium that is heated by the first heater, and feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to a heating part;
- and
- a blower that blows air to a rear surface of the recording medium so that the air is not blown to a front surface of the recording medium having an unfixed image, wherein the recording medium is fed by the second heater;
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- a feeder that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the first heater, and that holds and feeds the recording medium from the first heater to the second heater.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.