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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
May. 24, 2024
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Yuta Kitabayashi, Osaka, JP;
Ryohei Tokunaga, Osaka, JP;
Hiroki Kawasaki, Osaka, JP;
Shunsaku Fujii, Osaka, JP;
Rina Kikugawa, Osaka, JP;
Akihiro Kondo, Osaka, JP;
Yuto Masaoka, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Watatani, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
In a fixing device, a heater heats an endless rotatable fixing belt. A retention member includes a groove for retaining a lubricant and retains the heater such that a surface on a front side comes into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt via the lubricant. A pressure member is pressed against the heater while the fixing belt is interposed therebetween and forms, with the fixing belt, a pressure region for heating and pressurizing a paper sheet onto which a toner image has been transferred. A guide guides the paper sheet to the pressure region. The guide causes the paper sheet to come into contact with the fixing belt at a position more on a downstream side of a rotation direction of the fixing belt than the groove, to guide the paper sheet to the pressure region.