Heating member, fixing device, and image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kaubshiki Kaisha
InventorHIROYUKI YAMAJI
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Abstract
A heating member for heating a fixing member includes plural heat generation blocks, each of which generates heat when being energized. The plural heat generation blocks are provided side by side along a width direction that is orthogonal to a conveyance direction of a recording medium, and a length in the width direction of at least one of the plural heat generation blocks is equal to or shorter than a minimum difference of a length in the width direction between the recording media in adjacent standard sizes in an order of length in the width direction among the recording media to be conveyed in plural types of the standard sizes.
Claims12
A heating member for heating a fixing member, the heating member comprising:
- plural heat generation blocks, each of which generates heat when being energized, wherein
- the plural heat generation blocks are provided side by side along a width direction that is orthogonal to a conveyance direction of a recording medium, and
- a length of at least one of the plural heat generation blocks in the width direction is equal to or shorter than a minimum difference of a length in the width direction between the recording media in adjacent standard sizes in an order of length in the width direction among the recording media to be conveyed in plural types of the standard sizes.
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