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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2020
Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Toshiyuki Miyata, Kanagawa, JP;
Toru Inoue, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuyoshi Itoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Toko Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
Motoharu Nakao, Kanagawa, JP;
Sou Morizaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyoshi Koyanagi, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A heating device includes a rotating unit, a transport belt, a heater, and at least one heat pipe. The rotating unit rotates. The transport belt rotates together with the rotating unit while nipping a heated member together with the rotating unit so as to transport the heated member. The heater has a contact surface in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the transport belt and a non-contact surface not in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the transport belt, and generates heat so as to heat the heated member via the transport belt. The heat pipe is disposed in an oblique direction relative to a belt width direction of the transport belt such that the heat pipe is in contact with the non-contact surface of the heater, and transfers heat in the oblique direction in accordance with a function of a working fluid enclosed inside the heat pipe.