Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Faltec Company Limited

Yuichi Fukuda

Takayuki Yamashita

Tsukasa Matsuda

Sho Watanabe

Tetsuo Yamada

Ryosuke Takahashi

Kazuhiko Arai

Tomoyuki Ito

Hiroaki Akamatsu

Masaya Nakatsuhara

Makoto Sakanobe

Toshiyuki Miyata

Takahito Chiba

Masayuki Kono

Yasuhiro Oda

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto

Tohru Inoue

Noriaki Kojima

Nobuhiro Katsuta

Yutaka Kiuchi

Junpei Amano

Chikara Ando

Masahiro Katahira

Hiromi Nagai

Yoshihisa Kitano

Tatsuo Okuno

Satoshi Hasebe

Kouzou Sasaki

Masanori Kobayashi

Yasuhiro Toda

Kaoru Saito

Tetuso Yamada

Kouzo Sasaki

Shigeki Koyanagi

Satoru Fujiwara

Grip heater for a motorcycle

To avoid causing significant damage to a temperature sensor or an unintentional shift of the temperature sensor, a hand grip disclosed herein includes: a cylindrical inner housing; a heating elementprovided adjacent to an outer peripheral side of the inner housing; a temperature sensorprovided adjacent to the outer peripheral side of the inner housing; and a sheathingcovering the inner housing, the heating element, and the temperature sensor. A recessis formed on an outer peripheral surface of the inner housing, and the temperature sensoris fitted into the recess

Hand grip and inner housing of hand grip

A fixing device includes: a fixing member that fixes a toner image on a recording medium; a pressure member that forms a fixing pressure portion between the pressure member and the fixing member by making pressure contact with an outer circumferential surface of the fixing member, the fixing pressure portion being passed through by the recording medium holding an unfixed toner image; a heat supplier that supplies heat to the fixing member; and a thermal diffusion member that diffuses heat on a surface of the fixing member by contact with the fixing member.

Fixing device and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes: a fixing roll that is rotatable; a belt member that is stretched over the fixing roll; a pressurizing roll that pressurizes the fixing roll via the belt member; a belt pressing member that presses an outer surface of the belt member to the pressurizing roll from inside of the belt member on a downstream side at a pressure-contact position between the fixing roll and the pressurizing roll; and a controller that decrease a time difference between a passage time per unit area of a tip region of a recording medium and a passage time per unit area of a succeeding region of the recording medium to pass a pressure-contact portion between the fixing roll and belt pressing member and the pressurizing roll.

A fixing unit includes: a support member; an endless-belt-like fixing member which is wound on the support member; a pressure member which rotates in a fixed rotation direction while being pressed onto the fixing member; a fixing portion in which the fixing member and the pressure member abut against each other to perform fixation on a recording medium; a separation unit which is provided in a space between the support member and the fixing member on a downstream side of the fixing member in a rotation direction of the fixing member and for separating the recording medium from the fixing member; a separation portion which is provided in the separation unit to press the fixing member onto the pressure member and guide the fixing member to leave the pressure member; and an adjustment unit as defined herein.

Fixing unit and image forming apparatus

A fixing device includes: a fixing member that fixes a toner image on a recording medium; a pressure member that comes into pressure-contact with an outer peripheral surface of the fixing member and thereby forms a fixing pressure portion between the pressure member and the fixing member, the fixing pressure portion allowing the recording medium carrying an unfixed toner image to pass therethrough; a tension member that is arranged to face the pressure member with the fixing member interposed therebetween, and tensions the fixing member; a peeling member that is arranged at a position downstream of the fixing pressure portion in a recording medium transport direction and adjacent to the tension member, and peels the recording medium from the fixing member; and an exit guide member that guides the recording medium while keeping a temperature of the recording medium, after the recording medium passes through the fixing pressure portion.

Fixing device having a thermal-insulation member provided on a plate portion for guiding recording medium, and image forming apparatus

A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade member that has a tip abutting a surface of an image carrier so as to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the image carrier; an attaching member that includes a first attachment piece to which a base end of the cleaning blade member is attached, and a second attachment piece which is provided so as to intersect the first attachment piece at a predetermined angle; a housing member to which one of the first attachment piece and the second attachment piece is fixed at both ends along a longitudinal direction thereof; and an external force exerting member that exerts an external force in a direction which intersects a surface of the other one of the first attachment piece and the second attachment piece, which is not fixed to the housing member.

Cleaning device and image forming apparatus using the same

A fixing device includes: a belt member provided to be circularly movable having a width; a first fixing member disposed inside the belt member; a second fixing member disposed in press contact with the first fixing member across the belt member, and forms a passing portion with the belt member, through which a recording medium passes; and a pressing member disposed along a width direction of the belt member and downstream of the passing portion in a moving direction of the belt member, in which the pressing member has a surface and brings the surface in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the belt member to press the belt member against the second fixing member. The surface is curved toward the second fixing member along with a move from an end portion to a center portion in a longitudinal direction of the pressing member.

Fixing device configuration for an image forming apparatus

A cleaning device includes a cleaning blade that contacts a surface of a member to be cleaned to remove a residue remaining on the surface of the member to be cleaned, and that includes multiple layers, wherein a leading end portion of the cleaning blade shifts in a separating direction from the surface of the member to be cleaned due to a difference in thermal expansion property among the multiple layers when temperature rises.

A cleaning member includes a cleaning part whose one end portion comes into contact with a surface of an image carrier, and a supporting part that supports the cleaning part and applies a force for pressing the one end portion of the cleaning part to the surface of the image carrier, wherein a surface of a first portion including the one end portion of the cleaning part is bonded to the supporting part with a first adhesive layer, and a surface of a second portion including the other end portion opposite to the one end portion of the cleaning part is bonded to the supporting part with a second adhesive layer having a Type-A durometer hardness which is lower than that of the first adhesive layer.

Cleaning member, cleaner, image carrier unit and image forming device

A fixing device includes a heat unit that heats a toner image on a first recording medium and a heat absorption and transmission unit that absorbs heat of the first recording medium sent from the heat unit and transmits the heat thus absorbed to a second recording medium to be sent to the heat unit. The heat absorption and transmission unit includes a belt member circulated around tensile members to transport the first and second recording media. The belt member has a heat absorption portion and a heat transmission portion downstream and upstream from the heat unit, respectively. The heat absorption portion contacts the first recording medium and absorbs heat in a state that periphery of a contact region is thermally insulated, and the heat transmission portion contacts the second recording medium and transmits heat in a state that a periphery of a contact region is thermally insulated.

Fixing device and image forming device using the same

An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying body, a heating unit, a pressure unit for applying pressure, a recording medium supporting member, and a depressing/close-contacting unit. The recording medium supporting member moves in the same direction as the image carrying body moves, from a pressure position where the pressure unit applies pressure to the recording medium and the image carrying body to an exfoliation position where the recording medium is exfoliated from the image carrying body while supporting the recording medium overlapped with the image carrying body. The depressing/close-contacting unit sandwiches and depresses the recording-medium supporting member and the image carrying body in a middle position between the pressure position and the exfoliation position to closely contact the recording medium with the image carrying body.

Image forming apparatus and fixing apparatus

The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which adopts a simultaneous transfer and fixing method and is capable of obtaining a high-grade image which has high luster, a favorable balance of color and an excellent transparency. In an image forming apparatus provided with a transfer and fixing device which includes a heating roller and a pressure roller for transferring and fixing a toner image on an intermediate transfer body to a recording medium, the transferring and fixing operation is carried out using the heating roller and the pressure roller under a condition that the ratio a/b between the length a of a nip region N of the heating roller and the pressure roller in a direction A at the central portion of these rollers extending in a roller axial direction and the length b of the nip region N in the direction A at both ends of these rollers extending in the roller axial direction is set to be more than 0.8.

Transfer and fixing device having specific nip ratio

A method of forming an image for transferring, to a predetermined recording medium, a toner image transported to a transfer position by a toner image support for supporting the toner image and transporting the image from a predetermined toner image forming position to a predetermined toner image transfer position, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yuichi Fukuda