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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2017
Yasunori Ishigaya, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuya Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Keitaro Shoji, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiko Shimokawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromasa Takagi, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunori Ishigaya, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuya Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Keitaro Shoji, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshihiko Shimokawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiromasa Takagi, Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator being rotatable and a heater to heat the fixing rotator. The heater includes a tube, a heat generator, disposed inside the tube, to generate heat, and a sealing portion, disposed at each lateral end of the tube in a longitudinal direction of the heater, to seal the tube. The sealing portion includes an inboard edge. A reflector reflects heat radiated from the heater toward the fixing rotator. The reflector includes an outboard edge being disposed inboard from the inboard edge of the sealing portion in an axial direction of the fixing rotator.