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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2025
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Kawai, Chiba, JP;
Ikuo Nakamoto, Chiba, JP;
Shohei Tsuzaki, Chiba, JP;
Misa Kawashima, Chiba, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A fixing device includes an endless belt and a contact member contacting an inner surface of the belt in a nip. The contact member includes projections provided on a side where the contact member slides with the belt and to project toward the inner peripheral surface. The projections distribute on and outside the nip in a widthwise direction of a recording material. When in a region where the projections exist, a predetermined region outside the nip in the widthwise direction is a first region, and a region inside the first region and inside the nip is a second region, an area ratio of an contacting area of the belt and the projections in the first region to an area of the first region is larger than an area ratio of an contacting area of the belt and the projections in the second region to an area of the second region.
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