Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorsTakuma Ishihara, Takashi Matsubara, Takashi Ohashi, Hina Saito
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Abstract
A fixing device includes an endless belt, a fixing member that presses the belt against a recording medium holding an unfixed image to fix the unfixed image onto the recording medium, a restorer that is pressed against a surface of the belt after the image is fixed to restore the surface of the belt to a state before a fixing operation, and a changer that changes a pressing load of the restorer in accordance with a difference in a state of the surface of the belt between before the fixing operation and after the fixing operation.
Claims3
A fixing device, comprising:
- an endless belt;
- a fixing member configured to press the belt against a recording medium holding an unfixed image to fix the unfixed image onto the recording medium;
- a restorer configured to press against a surface of the belt after the image is fixed to restore the surface of the belt to a state before a fixing operation;
- and
- a changer configured to change a pressing load of the restorer based on a basis weight of the recording medium.
A fixing device, comprising:
- an endless belt;
- a fixing member for pressing the belt against a recording medium holding an unfixed image to fix the unfixed image onto the recording medium;
- a restoring means for pressing against a surface of the belt after the image is fixed to restore the surface of the belt to a state before a fixing operation;
- and
- a changing means for changing a pressing load of the restoring means based on a basis weight of the recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.