Fixing unit and image forming apparatus
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorJun OKAMOTO
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Abstract
A fixing unit includes a fixing rotatable body that is located at a side of a recording medium, the side carrying a not-fixed image, a pressing rotatable body that is located at another side of the recording medium and that is disposed so as to abut on the fixing rotatable body, a fixing heating unit that heats the fixing rotatable body, a first pressing heating unit that heats the pressing rotatable body from inside thereof, and a second pressing heating unit that is disposed opposite to a surface of the pressing rotatable body and that heats the pressing rotatable body from outside thereof.
Claims7
A fixing unit comprising:
- a fixing rotatable body that is located at a side of a recording medium, the side carrying a not-fixed image;
- a pressing rotatable body that is located at another side of the recording medium and that is disposed so as to abut on the fixing rotatable body;
- a fixing heating unit that heats the fixing rotatable body;
- a first pressing heating unit that heats the pressing rotatable body from inside of the pressing rotatable body;
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- a second pressing heating unit that is disposed opposite to a surface of the pressing rotatable body and that heats the pressing rotatable body from outside of the pressing rotatable body.
An image forming apparatus comprising a fixing unit, the fixing unit including:
- a fixing rotatable body that is located at a side of a recording medium, the side carrying a not-fixed image;
- a pressing rotatable body that is located at another side of the recording medium and that is disposed so as to abut on the fixing rotatable body;
- a fixing heating unit that heats the fixing rotatable body;
- a first pressing heating unit that heats the pressing rotatable body from inside of the pressing rotatable body;
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- a second pressing heating unit that is disposed opposite to a surface of the pressing rotatable body and that heats the pressing rotatable body from outside of the pressing rotatable body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.