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US 2009/0154967 A1Published application
Fuser device and image forming device
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorKunihiko Tomita
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Abstract
A fuser device includes a fusing member including an elastic layer on a surface side thereof and a cylindrical curved surface portion having a predetermined diameter, a heating member including a cylindrical curved surface portion having a predetermined diameter, the heating member having contact with the fusing member and heating the fusing member, and a pressure member including an elastic layer on a surface side thereof and a cylindrical curved surface portion having a predetermined diameter, the pressure member pressing the fusing member.
Claims19
A fuser device, comprising:
- a fusing member including an elastic layer on a surface side thereof and a cylindrical curved surface portion having a predetermined diameter;
- a heating member including a cylindrical curved surface portion having a predetermined diameter, the heating member having contact with the fusing member and heating the fusing member;
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- a pressure member including an elastic layer on a surface side thereof and a cylindrical curved surface portion having a predetermined diameter, the pressure member pressing the fusing member, wherein
- the fusing member and the pressure member sandwich a recording medium having an unfused toner image so as to fuse the unfused toner image,
- a surface temperature of the heating member is set higher than a setting temperature of the fusing member without disposing a heat generation source inside the fusing member,
- the diameter of the cylindrical curved surface portion of the fusing member is smaller than a diameter of the cylindrical curved surface portion of the heating member, and
- the diameter of the cylindrical curved surface portion of the pressure member is the diameter of the cylindrical curved surface portion of the fusing member or more.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.