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US 2010/0074662 A1Published application
Fixing device, gloss providing device and image forming system
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorTohru Hasegawa
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Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing member that comes into contact with a recording medium while rotating a heating unit that heats the fixing member, a pressing member that presses the recording medium to the fixing member while rotating, and an air supply unit that supplies air to a part included in an angle range of 90 degrees toward a downstream side of the pressing member in a rotating direction from a contact position between the pressing member and the fixing member.
Claims10
A fixing device comprising:
- a fixing member that comes into contact with a recording medium while rotating;
- a heating unit that heats the fixing member;
- a pressing member that presses the recording medium to the fixing member while rotating;
- and
- an air supply unit that supplies air to a part included in an angle range of 90 degrees toward a downstream side of the pressing member in a rotating direction from a contact position between the pressing member and the fixing member.
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A gloss providing device comprising:
- a belt member that comes into close contact with a recording medium and transports the recording medium;
- a heating member that is provided with a heat source therein and around which the belt member is entrained;
- a pressing member that is arranged to face the heating member across the belt member and presses the recording medium while rotating;
- a separating member around which the belt member is entrained to separate the recording medium from the belt member;
- a cooling unit that is arranged between the separating member and the heating member and comes into contact with an inner peripheral surface of the belt member to cool the belt member;
- and
- an air supply unit that supplies air to a part included in an angle range of 90 degrees toward a downstream side of the pressing member in a rotating direction from a contact position between the pressing member and the belt member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.