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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2020
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Sunohara, Kanagawa, JP;
Nobuyoshi Komatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Yuichiro Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasunori Fujimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing apparatus includes a heating section including a belt having a layered structure in which a metal layer is held between nonmetal layers. The belt has a front surface that comes into contact with a toner image and a back surface that does not come into contact with the toner image. The belt has a first thickness from the front surface to the metal layer inside the belt and a second thickness from the back surface to the metal layer inside the belt. The fixing apparatus also includes a pressure section that holds, between the pressure section and the belt, a transported sheet of paper holding the toner image and that applies pressure to the sheet of paper. The fixing apparatus further includes a first static eliminating section that eliminates static from the belt while being in contact with a surface of the belt. The surface is the front surface or the back surface that is on a side of the first thickness or the second thickness having a smaller thickness when the first thickness and the second thickness are compared.