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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2025
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Misa Kawashima, Chiba, JP;
Ikuo Nakamoto, Chiba, JP;
Hiroki Kawai, Chiba, JP;
Shohei Tsuzaki, Chiba, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a contact member contacting a belt in a nip. The contact member includes projections distributing on and outside the nip in a widthwise direction. When first region is outside the nip and second region is inside the first region, first ridge line is a line of an end portion, of a leading side of the projection, of which a length is longer in a conveyance direction and the length is LA, second ridge line is a line of the end portion of the outer side, of the leading side of the projection positioned on the outmost in the first region and the length is LB, average lengths of LA and LB of the projections along the conveyance direction are LAand LB, LB>LAis satisfied.