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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2024
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Suguru Takeuchi, Chiba, JP;
Kengo Koyama, Chiba, JP;
Ayano Saito, Chiba, JP;
Shigeru Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuharu Toratani, Chiba, JP;
Akiyoshi Shinagawa, Saitama, JP;
Shuhei Yasuda, Chiba, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a belt member, a heating roller stretching the belt member, a steering roller stretching the belt member and a cover member. The steering roller controls a position of the belt member with respect to a rotation axis direction of the heating roller by tilting with respect to the rotation axis direction. The cover member is disposed with a gap from the belt member in such a manner as to cover a part of an outer side of the belt member. A distance between the cover member and the belt member in a first stretched region stretched by the steering roller is larger than a distance between the cover member and the belt member in a second stretched region stretched by the heating roller in a case where the steering roller is parallel to the heating roller.