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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2025
Kyocera Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Tomohiro Watatani, Osaka, JP;
Masakazu Uehara, Osaka, JP;
KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a heating device, and a pressurizing member. The heating device includes a heater holding member, a temperature sensor that faces a heater and is disposed in the heater holding member, and a sensor holding member that is assembled with the heater holding member in a direction of facing the temperature sensor and includes a biasing member that biases the temperature sensor. The heater holding member includes a locking portion that locks one end of the sensor holding member, and an engaged portion engaged with an engaging portion provided in the sensor holding member at a different position from the one end in a length direction of the sensor holding member when the sensor holding member moves in the length direction with the one end locked by the locking portion, the engaging portion receiving the sensor holding member pressed by a counterreaction of biasing.