Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Sunhyung Lee

Hojin Ryu

Jaehyeok Jang

Sungwoo Kang

Jingue Ko

Seung-Jun Lee

Yongho Chun

SeaChul Bae

Seachul Bae

YongHo Chun

An example fuser includes a flexible fusing belt, a backup member located outside the fusing belt to form a fusing nip with the fusing belt, a heater substrate having a first surface including a heating element pattern and a second surface, opposite to the first surface, to heat the fusing belt in the fusing nip, and a heat conduction member in contact with the first surface of the heater substrate to distribute the heat of the heater substrate. The heating element pattern includes a first heating element having a first length greater than a width of a first print medium, and a second heating element having a second length greater than a width of a second print medium and greater than the first length.

Heat conduction member for preventing fuser heater from local overheating

An example fixing unit includes a flexible fixing belt, a backup member located outside the fixing belt to form a fixing nip, and a plate heater in contact with the fixing belt to heat the fixing belt in the fixing nip, wherein the fixing belt includes a first abrasion prevention layer disposed on a surface facing the plate heater and including polyetheretherketone (PEEK), and the plate heater includes a second abrasion prevention layer in contact with the first abrasion prevention layer and including glass.

Fixing apparatus for minimizing abrasion of contact surface between heater and fixing belt

An example fuser includes a flexible fixing belt, a backup member to form a fixing nip with the fixing belt, a heater substrate for heating the fixing belt at the fixing nip and having a first surface comprising a heating element pattern, a common terminal and a driving power supply terminal for supplying power to the heating element pattern, and a second surface in contact with the fixing belt, and a temperature sensor sheet comprising a temperature sensor, a sensing terminal and an electric wire connecting the temperature sensor to the sensing terminal, wherein the temperature sensor sheet is in contact with the first surface of the heater substrate such that the sensing terminal and the electrical wire do not overlap the common terminal and the driving power supply terminal.

Temperature sensor placement for heater substrate in fuser

An example fuser includes a flexible fixing belt, a back-up to form a fixing nip with the fixing belt, a heater substrate having a first surface on which a heating element pattern is located and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the heater substrate to heat the fixing belt at the fixing nip, and a heat conduction member having a plurality of heat conduction segments contacting the first surface of the heater substrate.

Heat conduction member for preventing fuser heater from overheating

A fixing belt includes a substrate layer inducting a first base resin and a first thermally conductive filler dispersed in the first base resin; and a release layer provided on the substrate layer, wherein the first base resin includes at least one selected from a polyimide, a polyamide, and a polyamideimide and the first thermally conductive filler includes at least one selected from carbon black, graphite, boron nitride (BN), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and carbon fibers, and the substrate layer has a thermal conductivity in a thickness direction of about 1.5 W/m&#xb7;K or more.

Fixing belt with high thermal conductivity

Provided is an endless belt that can be used for fusing a toner image or enhancing the gloss of a toner image, the endless belt including a substrate later and a release layer on the substrate layer. The release layer can include a coating layer that includes an inorganic-organic nanocomposite material in which inorganic nanoparticles are dispersed in a siloxane polymer matrix.

Belt comprising coating layer comprising inorganic-organic nanocomposite materials, and fusing apparatus and gloss-enhancing apparatus comprising the same

Provided is a fixing device to press a printing medium. The fixing device includes a rotating member and a pressure roller disposed to face the rotating member. The pressure roller includes a first groove and a second groove that extend along an outer circumferential surface respectively from a first end portion and a second end portion of the pressure roller. The first and second grooves are inclined with respect to a rotational axis of the pressure roller.

Fixing device and image forming device have the same

A fixing device includes a pressing member including a nip plate, and an electron beam-irradiated fluorinated resin film is to be on an outer surface of the nip plate facing toward the backup member.

Fixing device comprising nip plate treated with electron beam injected fluorinated resins

A heater for a fuser includes a substrate, a first pair of heating elements provided on the substrate, and a second pair of heating elements provided on the substrate. The first pair of heating elements and the second pair of heating elements extend in a length direction of the substrate. The second pair of heating elements is provided between one heating element among the first pair of heating elements and the other heating element among the first pair of heating elements. A distance between the heating elements of the second pair of heating elements is greater than or equal to a value obtained by adding widths of each of the first pair of heating elements and the second pair of heating elements at a center in the length direction of each of the heating elements from the first and second pairs of heating elements.

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Yongin-si, South Korea

Sunhyung Lee