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Fixing device for fusing and fixing an unfixed developer onto a recording medium, and image forming device having the same

US7433638B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 3, 2005
Grant dateOct 7, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 13, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03G15/2025
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A fixing device includes a feeding roller for feeding a belt-shaped cleaning member which has been rolled up, and a winding roller for taking up the cleaning member which has been fed from the feeding roller and cleaned the surface of the fixing roller. Each of the feeding roller and the winding roller rotates by a time control of a control portion so that a sum of a feed amount of the cleaning member which is fed by the feeding roller at one feeding occasion, and a take-up amount of the cleaning member which is taken up by the winding roller at one take-up occasion, is equal to or more than a double of a length Ln of a nip section.

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