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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsSatoshi Ueno, Masanao Ehara, Tadashi Ogawa, Hiroshi Seo, Takamasa Hase, Shuutaroh Yuasa
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A thermal fixing device includes a fixing member, a flexible endless belt, a flexible endless belt, a rotary pressure member, a heating unit, and a rotation detector. The flexible endless belt is disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member. The rotary pressure member is disposed parallel to and pressing against the fixing member via the endless belt. The heating unit heats the endless belt. The rotation detector detects a rotation speed of the endless belt. The heating unit is powered off when the rotation speed of the endless belt detected by the rotation detector is at or below a predetermined threshold value.
A thermal fixing device, comprising:
An image forming apparatus comprising a fixing device,
A thermal fixing device, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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The present patent application claims priority pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2010-058724, filed on Mar. 16, 2010 in the Japan Patent Office, which is hereby incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
1. Field
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a thermal fixing device and to an image forming apparatus, such as a copier, a printer, a facsimile machine, or a multifunctional device having at least two of the foregoing capabilities employing the image forming apparatus.
Additional aspects, features, and advantages of the present disclosure will be readily ascertained as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of an image forming apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;
FIG. 2A is a schematic view of a fixing device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure;
The accompanying drawings are intended to depict exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and should not be interpreted to limit the scope thereof. The accompanying drawings are not to be considered as drawn to scale unless explicitly noted.
In describing embodiments illustrated in the drawings, specific terminology is employed for the sake of clarity. However, the disclosure of this patent specification is not intended to be limited to the specific terminology so selected and it is to be understood that each specific element includes all technical equivalents that operate in a similar manner and achieve similar results.
Although the exemplary embodiments are described with technical limitations with reference to the attached drawings, such description is not intended to limit the scope of the invention and all of the components or elements described in the exemplary embodiments of this disclosure are not necessarily indispensable to the present invention.