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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Toru Imaizumi, Kanagawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing film, a heater for heating the fixing film, a heater holder including a heater holding portion holding the heater, and a pressing roller forming a nip between itself and the fixing film to be heated by the heater. In the nip, a toner image carried on a recording material is fixed. The heater holder includes an opposing surface which is provided on a side upstream of the heater holding portion with respect to a recording material feeding direction and which opposes the pressing roller, a lubricant holding portion provided on the opposing surface, for supplying a lubricant to between the fixing film and the heater, and a projected portion provided on the side upstream of the heater holding portion with respect to the recording material feeding direction and projecting toward the pressing roller from the opposing surface.