Fixing device, image forming apparatus and oblique motion restraint member for a fixing belt
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorAkihiro KONDO
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Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing belt configured to rotate about a specified rotation axis, and an oblique motion restraint member provided at an outer side of the fixing belt in a direction of the rotation axis and configured to restrain oblique motion of the fixing belt. The oblique motion restraint member includes a contact portion provided to make contact with an end surface of the fixing belt and a breakage-preventing portion provided radially inward of the contact portion and more outward in the direction of the rotation axis than the contact portion. The contact portion bulges in an arcuate cross-sectional shape toward an inner side in the direction of the rotation axis.
Claims7
A fixing device, comprising:
- a fixing belt configured to rotate about a specified rotation axis;
- and
- an oblique motion restraint member provided at an outer side of the fixing belt in a direction of the rotation axis and configured to restrain oblique motion of the fixing belt,
- wherein the oblique motion restraint member includes a contact portion provided to make contact with an end surface of the fixing belt and a breakage-preventing portion provided radially inward of the contact portion and more outward in the direction of the rotation axis than the contact portion, the contact portion bulging in an arcuate cross-sectional shape toward an inner side in the direction of the rotation axis.
An oblique motion restraint member for a fixing belt, which is provided at an outer side of the fixing belt in a direction of a specified rotation axis about which the fixing belt rotates, comprising:
- a contact portion provided to make contact with an end surface of the fixing belt;
- and
- a breakage-preventing portion provided radially inward of the contact portion and more outward in the direction of the rotation axis than the contact portion,
- wherein the contact portion bulges in an arcuate cross-sectional shape toward an inner side in the direction of the rotation axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.