Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

S-printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Hp Printing Korea Co., Ltd.

Soo-hwan Bae

Dong-Woo Lee

Seung-jun Lee

Youn-gun Jung

Jin-seung Choi

Dong-jin Seol

Eun-bong Han

Su-in Lee

Bong-hee Lee

O-hyun Beak

Young-hoon Han

Jun-tae Kim

Su-In Lee

A belt type fixing apparatus comprises: a fixing roller; a fixing belt which is installed to be opposite to the fixing roller; a nip forming member which is installed inside the fixing belt and supports the fixing belt so that the fixing belt can contact the fixing roller to form a fixing nip; a pair of sliding members which are installed to support both ends of the fixing belt and are rotated by the fixing belt; a pair of flange members which rotatably support the pair of sliding members; and a heat source which is installed inside the fixing belt and generates heat, wherein the rotation center of the pair of sliding members is located upstream in the transportation direction of printed matter compared to the rotation center of the fixing roller.

Belt type fixing apparatus and image forming apparatus comprising same

An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device that includes a heating unit which comprises a first heat source to heat an unfixed image on a print medium, and a pressing unit which forms a fixing nip by contacting the heating unit, where the pressing unit comprises a carbon nanotube heating layer as a second heat source to heat the unfixed image.

Fixing device having pressing unit with carbon nano tube heating layer

A surface heating type heating unit for a fixing device, and a fixing device and an image forming apparatus including the same. The surface heating type heating unit includes a planar heating element on an outer circumferential surface of a supporter having cylindrical shape, a power feeding terminal at each end of the supporter, and a connector disposed between the planar heating element and the power feeding terminal. The connector is formed on a first region on the power feeding terminal, and includes an adhesive material for adhering the planar heating element and the power feeding terminal, and a conductive material formed on a second region of the power feeding terminal excluding the first region.

Surface heating type heating unit for fixing device, and fixing device and image forming apparatus including the same

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