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Fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same

US8948670B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA · JP

Inventors

Hirokazu Nakamura · Osaka, JP
Masatsugu Ohishi · Nara, JP
Noriko Inoue · Osaka, JP
Masaki Amemiya · Osaka, JP
Masaya Asakawa · Yamatokōriyama, JP
Takashi Yamanaka · Kawagoe, JP

Key dates

Filing date	May 12, 2011
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 23, 2033

Classification

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

Abstract

A fixing apparatus of the present invention includes a fixing rotation member, a rotation drive portion that rotates the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet that cleans a circumferential surface of the fixing rotation member, a cleaning web sheet roller that takes up or feeds out the cleaning web sheet, a swing cam rotationally driven by the rotation drive portion, a rotation transmission portion that transmits a rotation drive force to the cleaning web sheet roller, a one way clutch provided on an input shaft of the rotation transmission portion, and a swing lever connected to the one way clutch and biased so as to be brought into slide contact with the swing cam.

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