Fixing device
AssigneeFuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
InventorTetsuro Kodera
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Abstract
Provided is a fixing device including a transparent belt, a press roller that is rotated with being opposed to and contacting with the transparent belt, and transports a recording medium interposed therebetween, a press member-cum-optical system that contacts with the transparent belt from an opposite side to the press roller, forms a press region for pressing a toner image formed on the recording medium in cooperation with the press roller during transport of the recording medium, and collects laser light on the toner image in the press region in a transport direction of the recording medium, and a laser light irradiation unit that irradiates the press member-cum-optical system with laser light.
Claims11
A fixing device comprising:
- a transparent belt;
- a press roller that is rotated with being opposed to and contacting with the transparent belt, and transports a recording medium interposed therebetween;
- a press member-cum-optical system that contacts with the transparent belt from an opposite side to the press roller, forms a press region for pressing a toner image formed on the recording medium in cooperation with the press roller during transport of the recording medium, and collects laser light on the toner image in the press region in a transport direction of the recording medium;
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- a laser light irradiation unit that irradiates the press member-cum-optical system with laser light.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.