Fixing device comprising endless belt and rotary body
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHirofumi Kuriki, Yasumasa Fujii, Akihiro Kobayashi
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Abstract
A fixing device including an endless belt, a rotary body positioned outside of the endless belt, the rotary body having an axis extending in an axial direction, an elastic member positioned at an inner space of the endless belt and configured to nip the endless belt in cooperation with the rotary body, and an adhering member having rigidity higher than rigidity of the elastic member. The elastic member has a contact surface in contact with the endless belt. The adhering member has an adhered portion adhered to an opposite surface opposite to the contact surface. The adhering portion has a length in the axial direction smaller than the length of the elastic member in the axial direction.
Claims16
A fixing device comprising:
- an endless belt defining an inner space;
- a rotary body positioned outside of the endless belt, the rotary body having an axis extending in an axial direction;
- an elastic member positioned at the inner space and configured to nip the endless belt in cooperation with the rotary body, the elastic member having a contact surface in contact with the endless belt, and an opposite surface opposite to the contact surface, the elastic member having a length in the axial direction;
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- an adhering member having rigidity higher than rigidity of the elastic member, and having an adhering portion adhered to the opposite surface of the elastic member, the adhering portion having a length in the axial direction smaller than the length of the elastic member with respect to at least one cross-sectional plane of the adhering member perpendicular to a conveying direction of an image recording medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.