Fixing Device Having Restricting Member to Restrict End Face of Endless Belt
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTomohiro Kondo
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Abstract
There is provided a fixing device that may include: an endless belt having an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space and configured to circularly move about a first axis extending in an axial direction; a heater and a nip plate extending through the internal space; a rotary body; a restricting member and a biasing member. The rotary body and the nip member may nip the endless belt therebetween. The restricting member may restrict displacement of the endless belt in the axial direction, the restricting member having a restricting surface configured to oppose an axial end face of the endless belt in the axial direction. The biasing member may bias the restricting member toward the axial end face of the endless belt.
Claims10
A fixing device comprising:
- an endless belt having an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space and configured to circularly move about a first axis extending in an axial direction, the endless belt having an axial end face;
- a heater extending through the internal space;
- a nip member extending through the internal space;
- a rotary body, the rotary body and the nip member being configured to nip the endless belt therebetween;
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- a restricting member configured to restrict displacement of the endless belt in the axial direction, the restricting member having a restricting surface configured to oppose the axial end face of the endless belt in the axial direction;
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- a biasing member configured to bias the restricting member toward the axial end face of the endless belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.