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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2023
Applicant:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tomomi Ootaka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/2053 (2013.01);
Abstract
A fixation device may include: an annular belt, and includes an elastic layer with a thickness of more than 300 μm; and a counter member opposed to the outer peripheral surface of the annular belt to form a nip region with the annular belt. A difference between a local maximum and a local minimum in a film thickness profile of the annular belt along a circumferential direction of the outer peripheral surface at a first location in a width direction of the annular belt is less than 101 μm.