Fixing unit and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorsSho WATANABE, Yuichi FUKUDA, Chikara ANDO, Toshiyuki MIYATA, Masaya NAKATSUHARA
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Abstract
A fixing unit includes: a fixing member; a pressure member that rotates while being pressed onto the fixing member; a fixing portion that is a contact portion between the fixing member and the pressure member and performs fixation on a recording medium; and a temperature uniformizing member that abuts against the pressure member on a rotational downstream side of the pressure member with respect to the fixing portion and over an area longer than an axial length of the recording medium perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording medium.
Claims12
A fixing unit comprising:
- a fixing member;
- a pressure member that rotates while being pressed onto the fixing member;
- a fixing portion that is a contact portion between the fixing member and the pressure member and performs fixation on a recording medium;
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- a temperature uniformizing member that abuts against the pressure member on a rotational downstream side of the pressure member with respect to the fixing portion and over an area longer than an axial length of the recording medium perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the recording medium.
A fixing unit comprising:
- a fixing member;
- a pressure member that rotates while being pressed onto the fixing member;
- a fixing portion that is a contact portion between the fixing member and the pressure member and performs fixation on a recording medium;
- and
- a temperature uniformizing member that abuts against the pressure member on a rotational downstream side of the pressure member with respect to the fixing portion and transports heat axially from the pressure member in a non-contact area with the recording medium to the pressure member in a contact area with the recording medium, so as to uniformize surface temperatures between the non-contact area and the contact area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.