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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2018
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Hirose, Suntou-gun, JP;
Satoru Taniguchi, Mishima, JP;
Takashi Honke, Mishima, JP;
Hirohiko Aiba, Suntou-gun, JP;
Keita Nakajima, Mishima, JP;
Kazushi Nishikata, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiki Inui, Mishima, JP;
Koichi Yamada, Mishima, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a rotatable cylindrical film, a contact member, a nip forming member, and regulating member. The regulating member includes an inner surface regulating surface that contacts and regulates a position of an inner surface of the film, and that, with respect to a rotational direction of the film, includes a first region remotest from a nip and a second region closer to the nip than the first region, the second region being positioned in a side upstream of a center of the nip with respect to a recording material feeding direction. The inner surface regulating surface is inclined so as to be spaced from the inner surface of the film toward a longitudinal center of the film, and a degree of inclination of the inner surface regulating surface is greater in the first region than in the second region.