Fixing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorKei Kobayashi
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Abstract
A fixing device and an image forming apparatus including the fixing device are supplied capable of preventing life of roller from shortening due to big shearing warp. In the fixing device to fix a toner image that is transferred on a record medium though using an endless belt heated by a heating member, the endless belt is extended by a first pressing member and the heating member; a second pressing member and the first pressing member sandwich and hold the endless belt to press the endless belt; and a rotating member is externally contacted with the endless belt and drives the endless belt to move.
Claims10
A fixing device to fix a toner image that is transferred on a record medium though using an endless belt heated by a heating member, comprising:
- a first pressing member;
- a second pressing member;
- a rotating member, and
- a supporting member,
- wherein
- the endless belt is extended by the first pressing member and the heating member;
- the second pressing member and the first pressing member sandwich and hold the endless belt to press the endless belt;
- the rotating member is externally contacted with the endless belt and drives the endless belt to move;
- the heating member is provided in the supporting member at a downstream side of the supporting member in a moving direction of the endless belt;
- and
- the rotating member is pressed to the endless belt at an upstream side of the supporting member in the moving direction of the endless belt.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a fixing device to fix a toner image that is transferred on a record medium though using an endless belt heated by a heating member,
- wherein the fixing device includes:
- a first pressing member;
- a second pressing member;
- a rotating member, and
- a supporting member,
- wherein
- the endless belt is extended by the first pressing member and the heating member;
- the second pressing member and the first pressing member sandwich and hold the endless belt to press the endless belt;
- the rotating member is externally contacted with the endless belt and drives the endless belt to move;
- the heating member is provided in the supporting member at a downstream side of the supporting member in a moving direction of the endless belt;
- and
- the rotating member is pressed to the endless belt at an upstream side of the supporting member in the moving direction of the endless belt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.