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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2022
Applicant:
Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takayuki Yamashita, Ebina, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01); G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/2017 (2013.01); G03G 15/20 (2013.01); G03G 15/2064 (2013.01); G03G 15/6511 (2013.01);
Abstract
A fixing device includes: a heating section that heats in a non-contact manner a front surface of a recording medium; a feeding section that feeds the recording medium while causing the front surface to be opposed to the heating section; and a maintaining section that, in order to enable the recording medium to be fed by the feeding section while a rear surface that is opposite to the front surface, and that is in an image region where an unfixed-image is formed on the front surface is in a non-contact state, maintains the non-contact state.