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US 12,572,097 B2Granted
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsTakashi Matsubara, Takashi Ohashi, Takuma Ishihara, Hina Saito
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Abstract
A fixing device includes an endless belt, multiple stretchers that stretch the belt, a heater that heats the belt including sections, section by section, sectioned in a direction crossing a rotation direction of the belt, and a switch that switches the sections heated by the heater from one to another in accordance with a position of an edge portion of the belt in the direction crossing the rotation direction of the belt.
Claims17
A fixing device comprising:
- an endless belt;
- a plurality of stretchers that stretch the belt;
- a heater that heats the belt including sections, section by section, sectioned in a direction crossing a rotation direction of the belt;
- and
- a switch that switches the sections heated by the heater from one to another in accordance with a position of an edge portion of the belt in the direction crossing the rotation direction of the belt.
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A fixing device comprising:
- an endless belt;
- a plurality of stretching means for stretching the belt;
- heating means for heating the belt including sections, section by section, sectioned in a direction crossing a rotation direction of the belt;
- and
- switching means for switching the sections heated by the heating means from one to another in accordance with a position of an edge portion of the belt in the direction crossing the rotation direction of the belt.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.