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US 2024/0184232 A1Published application
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
InventorTakayuki YAMASHITA
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Abstract
A fixing device includes: a heating section that heats in a non-contact manner a front surface of a recording medium; a feeding section that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the heating section; and a maintaining section that, in order to enable the recording medium to be fed by the feeding section while a rear surface that is opposite to the front surface, and that is in an image region where an unfixed-image is formed on the front surface is in a non-contact state, maintains the non-contact state.
Claims11
A fixing device comprising:
- a heating section that heats in a non-contact manner a front surface of a recording medium;
- a feeding section that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the heating section;
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- an air blowing section that blows air to a rear surface of the recording medium so that the air is not blown air to a front surface having an unfixed image of the recording medium that is fed by the feeding section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.