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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2017
Keisuke Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiji Saitoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Masami Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kensuke Yamaji, Kanagawa, JP;
Fumihiro Hirose, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuutaroh Yuasa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuta Kanda, Kanagawa, JP;
Keisuke Kubota, Kanagawa, JP;
Seiji Saitoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Masami Okamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Kensuke Yamaji, Kanagawa, JP;
Fumihiro Hirose, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuutaroh Yuasa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuuta Kanda, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing belt that is endless and rotatable in a rotation direction and a nip former stretching the fixing belt. A pressure rotator presses against the nip former via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium is conveyed. A separator is disposed downstream from the nip former in a recording medium conveyance direction and stretches the fixing belt. The separator is spaced apart from the pressure rotator via the fixing belt. A presser is interposed between an exit of the fixing nip and an upstream end of the separator in the rotation direction of the fixing belt. The presser comes into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt to press the fixing belt against the pressure rotator.