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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
May. 29, 2020
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Takafumi Nakagawa, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device to fix an unfixed toner image to the sheet includes a fixing belt, a guide plate, a support member and a pressing roller. The fixing belt has endless shape and rotates with a conveyance of the sheet. The guide plate guides the fixing belt from an inside of the fixing belt so as to rotate. The support member supports the fixing belt along a conveyance path of the sheet from the inside. The pressing roller presses the fixing belt on the support member from an outside of the fixing belt. The fixing belt has a belt width wider than a guide width of the guide plate in a rotational axial direction of the fixing belt. Both end edges of the guide plate in the rotational axial direction are formed to have a shape containing a shape not parallel to a rotational direction of the fixing belt.