Image forming apparatus equipped with fixing device
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazuhiro Suzuki
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a box shaped main body and a fixing device that is provided in the main body. The fixing device includes a heating roller that has a length nearly corresponding to the maximum width of paper and a pressure roller that has a substantially same length as the length of the heating roller and comes in contact with the heating roller, and a contact/separation mechanism to bring the pressure roller into contact with or separate from the heating roller. The fixing device can be taken out of the main body by moving it in the direction orthogonal to the long direction of the heating roller and the pressure roller.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a box shaped main body;
- and
- a fixing device provided in the main body, the fixing device including:
- a heating roller having a length nearly corresponding to the maximum width of paper;
- a pressure roller having the same length substantially as the heating roller in pressure contact with the heating roller;
- and
- a contacting/separating mechanism to press contact/separate the pressure roller to/from the heating roller,
- wherein the fixing device can be moved out of the main body by moving in the direction orthogonal to the long direction of the heating roller and the pressure roller.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a box shaped main body;
- guide members fixed in the main body;
- rail members attached to the guide members so as to slide for the guide members;
- supporting members fixed to the rail members to pull out them to the outside from the main body;
- and
- a fixing device fixed to the supporting members and movable between the inside and the outside of the main body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.