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Fixing device and image forming apparatus

US5822670A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 14, 1997
Grant dateOct 13, 1998
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Expiry dateJan 14, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/2042
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A fixing device for heating and fixing an unfixed image to a record medium bearing the unfixed image, includes a heating roller provided with a core roller and at least two resistance heating members arranged at the core roller and controlled to be electrically powered independently of each other, the resistance heating members provide different heat distributions in a direction of a rotation axis of the heating roller.

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