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US 2008/0175613 A1Published application
Fixing apparatus
OwnerShougo Fukai, Atsushi Oganeinventors
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Abstract
A fixing apparatus comprising: a heating member; a belt that comes in contact with the heating member to form a nip portion; a pressing member that presses the belt against the heating member, wherein a sheet carrying a toner image is interposed at the nip portion formed by the heating member and the belt and fixed; a sliding member that stands between the belt and the pressing member to cause the belt to slide; and a controller to control so that a position of the sliding member is changed in a direction of rotation of the belt.
Claims13
A fixing apparatus comprising:
- (a) a heating member;
- (b) a belt that comes in contact with the heating member to form a nip portion;
- (c) a pressing member that presses the belt against the heating member, wherein a sheet carrying a toner image is interposed at the nip portion formed by the heating member and the belt and fixed;
- (d) a sliding member that stands between the belt and the pressing member to cause the belt to slide;
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- (e) a controller to control so that a position of the sliding member is changed in a direction of rotation of the belt.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.