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US 8,428,500 B2Granted
Belt pressurizing device and image forming apparatus
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorHitoshi Komuro
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Abstract
A belt pressurizing device includes: an endless belt that is circularly driven; a pressing member that presses the endless belt against a facing member with the endless belt interposed between the pressing member and the facing member; and a lubricant supplying member that supplies lubricant to reduce sliding resistance of the endless belt pressed by the pressing member, so as not to be in contact with the endless belt.
Claims20
A belt pressurizing device comprising:
- an endless belt that is circularly driven;
- a pressing member that presses the endless belt against a facing member with the endless belt interposed between the pressing member and the facing member;
- and
- a lubricant supplying member not in contact with the endless belt that supplies lubricant to reduce sliding resistance of the endless belt pressed by the pressing member.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a charging unit that charges an image carrier;
- an exposure unit that exposes the image carrier to form an electrostatic latent image;
- a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier;
- a transfer unit that transfers an image developed on the image carrier to a transferred body, the transfer unit including:
- an endless belt that is circularly driven;
- a pressing member that presses the endless belt against a facing member with the endless belt interposed between the pressing member and the facing member;
- and
- a lubricant supplying member not in contact with the endless belt that supplies lubricant to reduce sliding resistance of the endless belt pressed by the pressing member ;and
- a fixing unit that heats and pressurizes the image on the transferred body, thereby to fix the image.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a charging unit that charges an image carrier;
- an exposure unit that exposes the image carrier to form an electrostatic latent image;
- a developing unit that develops the electrostatic latent image formed on the image carrier;
- a transfer unit that transfers an image developed on the image carrier to a transferred body;
- and
- a fixing unit that heats and pressurizes the image on the transferred body, thereby to fix the image, the fixing unit including:
- an endless belt that is circularly driven;
- a pressing member that presses the endless belt against a facing member with the endless belt interposed between the pressing member and the facing member;
- and
- a lubricant supplying member not in contact with the endless belt that supplies lubricant to reduce sliding resistance of the endless belt pressed by the pressing member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.